Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK in intensive care for coronavirus

Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Papa Owusu-Ankomah, has contracted the deadly novel coronavirus, reports suggest.

The former Member of Parliament for Sekondi who also heads Ghana’s mission to Ireland was reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 on April 10 was sent to a London Hospital where he is under intensive care, myjoyonline reported.

Mr Ankomah who has been Ghana’s High Commissioner since June 2017, is said to be responding to treatment in a country struggling to deal with thousands of death from the dreaded coronavirus.

Mr Ankomah joins the British Prime Minister, Mr Boris Johnson, and a host of African politicians, including three Nigerian governors, who have contracted the virus.

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Papa Owusu-Ankomah is a founding member of the New Patriotic Party, which he represented in Ghana’s Parliament as a member from 1997 to 2016 for  Sekondi in the Western Region. During his tenure in Parliament, he served in many parliamentary positions, culminating in his selection as Majority Leader in Parliament.

Mr  Owusu-Ankomah was a prominent member of the Kufuor Administration (2001-2008), during which he served in a record number of senior ministerial positions. He has served as the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Education, Science and Sports.