A worker at a fish-processing factory in Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said.
Accra - A worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana's Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a broadcast late on Sunday.
"All 533 persons were infected by one person," President Akufo-Addo said. He did not provide details of how the disease spread in the facility or if safety measures had been in place. The new cases pushed Ghana's total since the pandemic was first reported in the West African nation in mid-March to 4,700 as of Sunday night, the highest number of infections in West Africa.With 160 501 tests since the outbreak, Akufo-Addo said Ghana had carried out more tests per million people than any other country in Africa.
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