Akufo-Addos claim that Ghana leads Covid-19 testing in Africa is false French News Agency (AFP) MyJoyOnline.com [Video]

The French News Agency (AFP) has described as false President Akufo-Addo’s claim that Ghana “has administered more tests per million people than any other country in Africa.”

According to AFP, it has found from available statistics that Ghana is behind South Africa and at least two other African countries.

The President, Nana Akufo-Addo in his ninth address to the nation on May 10, on measures his government was taking to fight the coronavirus “…in fact, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has reached out to us to share our sample pooling experience with other African countries, so they can adopt this strategy and also ramp up their testing capabilities.”

Read the report by AFP below:

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo claimed in a speech that his country had administered more COVID-19 tests per million people than any other country in Africa. However, the claim is false; AFP has found from available statistics that Ghana comes behind South Africa …