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|Just in |U/W: Nigerian man who escaped after testing positive for COVID-19 arrested

A 46-year-old Nigerian man who escaped after testing positive for the novel Coronavirus, Simon Okafor Chukudi has been arrested by the Upper West Regional Police Command.
Simon Okafor Chukudi was hiding in a compound house near the Wa polytechnic.
He has since been handed over to the COVID-19 team led by the Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih.
The Upper West Regional Police. Seven other people he came into contact with him
have also been picked up and placed under quarantine at the Upper West regional hospital.

The Nigerian national was kept under surveillance at his residence by officials of the Ghana Health Service awaiting the outcome of his test results for COVID-19 which came out positive last Monday.
He was however nowhere to be found when health officials followed up to his residence at Wapaani, a suburb of Wa to transport him to the isolation centre at the Upper West Regional Hospital.