A single worker at a fish factory in Ghana infected 533 co-workers with coronavirus in an incident that now accounts for roughly 11 per cent of the west African country’s total recorded infections.
The so-called “superspreader” event happened at a fish processing plant in the port city of Tema last month, President Nana Akufo-Addo said during a national address on Sunday night. The infections were identified as part of a roughly two-week backlog of nearly 1,000 cases that had only just been reported, the president said.
With more than 160,000 samples inspected, Ghana has the highest per capita testing rate in sub-Saharan Africa, where many countries lack the resources to test widely. The government is employing a “pool testing” strategy, which involves collectively reviewing up to 10 samples together and then only individually testing those in positive batches.