The Health Ministry has directed all public health testing laboratories not to charge residents in Ghana for COVID-19 testing.
This was contained in a statement dated January 27, 2021.
The ministry said it “has decided that public COVID-19 testing laboratories providing walk-in services can charge only charge travellers for testing”.
It also said, “all other walk-in requests such as ill-health, contact tracing and exposure must be done free-of-charge using public health resources.”
Currently, Ghana’s active cases of COVID-19 is 3,813 after 616 new cases have been recorded.
Five more deaths increasing the death toll to 377.
The total number of confirmed cases recorded so far is 62, 751 with a total of 58, 561 recoveries and discharges.
Here is the full statement from the Ministry of Health:
Source: Ghana Waves