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# Ghana’s President goes into a 14-day self-isolation after a person in his close circle tested positive for COVID-19
- URL: https://braperucci.africa/ghanas-president-goes-into-a-14-day-self-isolation-after-a-person-in-his-close-circle-tested-positive-for-covid-19
- Published: 2020-07-05T05:15:30.000Z
- Author: Bra Perucci
- Publisher: Bra Perucci
- Section: News
- Tags: COVID-19, Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo
- Description: The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo has entered into a 14-day self-isolation after he was exposed to an infected person.

![Ghana’s President goes into a 14-day self-isolation after a person in his close circle tested positive for COVID-19](https://braperucci.africa/api/media/variant/full/Nana-Addo.jpg?v=kc8m9lqw)

### **The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo has** entered into a 14-day self-isolation after he was exposed to an infected person.

![Presidency](https://braperucci.africa/api/media/variant/full/Presidency.jpg?v=kc8m6n9k)

This was announced in a press statement by the Minister of Information, Hon Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Saturday evening.

According to Oppong Nkrumah, the President’s self-isolation had already begun on Saturday, July 4, 2020, despite testing negative with the virus.

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“On the advice of doctors, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is from today, July 4, 2020, taking a fourteen (14) day precautionary self- isolation measure in compliance with Covid-19 protocols,” the statement announced.

Another portion of the statement revealed that “The President has elected to do so after at least one person within his close circle tested positive for Covid-19 today.”

The President will work from the Presidential Villa at the Jubilee House during the self-isolation period.

Read the full statement below:

![Ghana’s President goes into a 14-day self-isolation after a person in his close circle tested positive for COVID-19](https://braperucci.africa/api/media/variant/full/Press-Statement.jpg?v=kc8m7hcw)

During the course of the week, several high-profile politicians in his government were revealed to have contracted the virus with a few in ICU and the head of the Forestry Commission passing away.

Ghana first recorded two cases of COVID-19 on 12 March 2020, when two infected people returned from [Norway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway) and [Turkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey).