Passengers arriving Ghana on international flights will be
required to take an antigen test upon arrival at the Kotoka International Airport.
Business24 quotes Joseph Kofi Adda, the Ghanian minister of
aviation, as saying 70 sample collection booths have been set up at the upper
level of the arrival hall for passengers.
The minister said a laboratory has been set up at the
airport to process the samples and transmit results electronically to the port
health stations within 12 and 15 minutes of sample collection.
Upon arrival at the port health stations, passengers with
negative antigen tests will be cleared to proceed to the immigration counter
and admitted into the country.
However, passengers with positive antigen tests will be
handed to health authorities at the airport for transfer to isolation centres.
Thus the minister said arriving passengers with negative
antigen results will not have to be isolated for 14 days.
The tests will cost passengers between GH¢200-400.
After a tour of the airport facility, the minister said: “We
have done our best, the service providers of GACL have worked throughout the
night and we are hopeful that after the simulation exercise on Friday and
Saturday, we will be able to open by September 1”.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (pictured), the Ghanian
president, was reported to have tied the airport reopening to the country’s
ability to test each passenger upon arrival.
To achieve this, the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical
Research at the University of Ghana has been testing a COVID-19 polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) detection kit that is to be used to test passengers at the
airport.
In Nigeria, arriving passengers are required to take a PCR
test within 14 days before travelling.
According to Sanni Aliyu, coordinator of the presidential
task force on COVID-19, passengers who present negative PCR tests are expected
to self-isolate for seven days and submit COVID-19 test results before getting
unrestricted access.
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