{"id":217882,"date":"2020-05-11T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=217882"},"modified":"2020-05-11T21:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T20:22:30","slug":"covid-19-one-person-infected-533-people-with-coronavirus-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=217882","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: One person infected 533 people with coronavirus- Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has disclosed that a worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana\u2019s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus (COVID-19).<br \/>\nGhana\u2019s president said this in a nationwide address on Sunday night as he lifted the three weeks restriction on movement in parts of the country implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19.<br \/>\nAkufo-Addo, who did not provide details of the virus spread in the facility or if safety measures had been in place, also announced an extension of the ban on public gatherings until the end of May, stressing that schools and universities will remain closed.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the 533 positive cases, which represent around 11.3% of Ghana\u2019s total infections, were part of a backlog of about 921 cases going back as far as April 26 that are only recently being reported.<br \/>\n\u201cOne person infected all 533 persons,\u201d President Akufo-Addo said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe implementation of our strategy of aggressively tracking, testing, and treating is our surest way of rooting out the virus,\u201d He added.<br \/>\nGhana now has 4,700 COVID-19 cases, 494 recoveries, and 22 deaths as of Sunday night.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has disclosed that a worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana\u2019s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus (COVID-19). Ghana\u2019s president said this in a nationwide address on Sunday night as he lifted the three weeks restriction on movement in parts of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,14676,311],"class_list":["post-217882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-akufo-nana-ado","tag-ghana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}