The Ghanaian president’s office has refuted a newspaper report which claimed that President Nana Akufo-Addo had travelled to the UK to be treated for Covid-19.
The report on 5 July by the Herald news website quoted unnamed sources as saying the president had tested positive for coronavirus and was being flown out of the country.
The president’s spokesperson says the Ghanaian leader is isolating at the presidential palace in Accra as a precaution, and is not outside the country.
“Kindly disregard the false story… It is clearly a figment of the author’s imagination,” Eugene Arhin says in a statement posted on Facebook, which has an undated photo showing the president with others including the first lady.
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Mr Akufo-Addo went into a 14-day period of self-isolation after being exposed to someone who later tested positive for Covid-19.
It is not known whether the person who tested positive was a member of his family or staff.
The Information Minister Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah said on 4 July that the president had tested negative for the virus.
BBC
