Papa Owusu Ankomah, Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland, is in “stable condition” after he was diagnosed with coronavirus.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Ghana High Commission in London on Wednesday, April 15.
“We wish to inform you that indeed the High Commissioner has been diagnosed with the COVID-19 and to assure all of you that he is in a stable condition,” the statement noted.
“Meanwhile, we take this opportunity to entreat all to be restrained in their utterances and avoid uninformed speculation about the health status of our High Commissioner,” the Commission warned.
The statement further urged the general public to remember Mr. Owusu Ankomah in prayers.
Reports were rife last week that the 61-year-old Ghanaian diplomat was infected with COVID-19 on Friday, April 10, 2020.
Initial reports suggested that he was admitted at the intensive care at an unknown hospital. Mr Owusu Ankomah was appointed Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland in June 2017 and has served in that capacity since then.
Messages have since been pouring in from people from all walks of life, especially top members of the governing New Patriotic Party wishing him well.
By Jonathan Ofori, Daily Mail GH
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