Six of the nine novel coronavirus cases recorded in the Volta Region were from foreigners who entered Ghana illegally, a statement from the Ketu South Municipal Assembly has disclosed.

According to the statement, these individuals entered the country two weeks ago.

The Assembly in the statement said, “efforts are being made through the Ministry of National Security for their repatriation to their home country.”

The six were travellers from Nigeria “who had entered Ghana through unapproved routes along the Ghana-Togo border near Aflao,” the Volta Regional Coordinating Council said in the statement.

“They were apprehended and have been under mandatory quarantine for the past fourteen days,” the statement added.

Meanwhile, the Assembly has asked residents not to panic.

“The number of recorded cases should not alarm you but rather give you hope that pragmatic measures put in place to quarantine these individuals have yielded positive results.”

“Those who had contact with them are therefore advised to quickly try to self-isolate while we continue to contact trace to identify all those who might have come into contact with them,” the assembly added.

The three other cases, which are Ghanaian nationals, include a 48-year-old man, a 22-year-old pregnant woman and a 32-year-old man.

The Volta Regional Coordinating Council noted that “All the three cases confirmed in routine surveillance are not known contacts of COVID-19 cases.”

The 48-year-old man returned to Ho from Accra, the pregnant woman returned to Hohoe from Ashaiman and the 32-year-old man travelled to Hohoe from Tema.