A popular Ghanaian musician’s father died of Coronavirus.
Today March 27, Ghana recorded it’s fourth death toll of Coronavirus.
The fourth person according to a reporter sighted on JoyNews was an elderly man who didn’t know he had the symptoms of Coronavirus but sadly lost his live.
The popular Ghanaian musician, however, failed to immediately disclose the travel history of the deceased following the admission of his father who had recently returned from a trip to the United States.
This delayed the attention that should have been paid to him. He was admitted to the resuscitation centre, however, but died before the results of a COVID-19 test were ready for which he tested positive.
The body of the deceased is still at a temporary morgue at the emergency centre of the Ridge Hospital.
Meanwhile, the deceased is said to have come into contact with some health workers who may not have known of his infection earlier.
About 15 of the health workers who were on duty at the time are expected to be taken through self-isolation while contact tracing begins.
Hospital authorities are also preparing to disinfect the emergency centre.
The authorities are said to be waiting for the National COVID-19 Response Team to take the necessary steps before getting the body moved.
Even though the report from Joy News didn’t specify the popular musician, a tweet sighted on Wendy Shay’s twitter timeline revealed the identity of the person.
According to Wendy Shay, the deceased is her manager, Bullet’s uncle.
Wendy Shay further stated that the popular musician is Musiga President, Obour Bice.
Wendy Shay wrote:
Omg I just can’t believe this? I’m so sorry to hear this about ur father Obour ??
Bullet sorry for your loss I know you lost your uncle ?
Corona Virus is closer than we think ?COVID2019
See her post below:
Obour Bice also announced the news with a post he shared on his social media platforms explaining how sadden the death of his father has cost him.
Obour wrote:
With sadness and a heavy heart I announce the death of Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour my biological father.
Nana returned from UK on 19th March after his yearly visit to the family. Upon his return he was fine but began coughing on Sunday 22nd.
We arranged for his blood sample to be tested and he tested positive for malaria.
We began treatment for malaria but his condition got worse. We arranged to bring him to Accra to be tested for Covid 19 at Ridge Hospital on Wednesday. They informed us that his report will be ready on Friday but we should keep him in quarantine which we did.
On thursday night he had extreme difficulty with breathing so we called the Ambulance service and informed them of his condition. We told them the patient has tested for COVID 19 and awaiting his results so they should come along with appropriate apparel.
The ambulance team took him to Ridge Hospital around 11pm on thursday March 26. We informed the health team at Ridge of his condition and also informed them he had earlier taken a test for Covid and awaiting results.
Late this afternoon , the Drs informed us that he is likely to be a confirmed Covid case and as such we should take steps to do a contact trace and quarantine ourselves. Sadly he passed on this evening.
Under the circumstances I understand nobody can come over to pay their respects and commiserate with our family as we are all on a 14 Day quarantine though I and my assistant who had close contact with him have both tested negative for COVID 19 as at today 27th March.
These are the true facts about my fathers demise.
Bice Obour Osei Kuffour
see his post below: