COVID-19 kills Carlos Ahenkorah’s campaign team member

A member of Carlos Ahenkorah’s campaign team in the Tema West Constituency died on Thursday after he was rushed to the LEKMA Hospital at Teshie in Accra for medical attention.

The deceased (name withheld), a ward coordinator at Lashibi, was among three members of Mr Ahenkorah’s campaign team in the Tema West Constituency alleged to have tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease.

An authentic source said the polling station chairman for Community 5, popularly called Bobo, was on admission to Caiquo Hospital, a private facility at Tema, whilst  Nana Boakye, the second person, was in self-isolation and being treated at home.

News of the death of the ward coordinator came as a surprise to many constituents who wondered how he and the two others became infected with the disease.

Party members in the constituency declined to discuss the issue when they were approached by the Ghanaian Times.

Meanwhile, the parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Tema West, Carlos Ahenkorah, resigned yesterday from his position as the Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry.

Mr Ahenkorah came under intense criticism on social media after it emerged he visited some voter registration centres on Tuesday in his constituency to see how the voter registration exercise was going, though he had tested positive for COVID-19.

Mr Ahenkorah told some radio stations on Thursday that he went out of isolation because he was asymptomatic.