Fifteen members of a family in Adidome, in Central Tongu District of the Volta Region, have gone into self-isolation in their self-contained apartment after they came into contact with Covid-19 positive patient.

District Chief Executive for Central Tongu, Thomas Moore Zonyrah, told Joy News on Thursday that the Covid-19 patient and his wife and children visited hometown where he came into contact with the 15 members of the family, before testing positive for the virus.

Health officials in the district have been put on high alert to keenly monitor the family under self-isolation.

Meanwhile, some two Nigerian nationals who were arrested for entering Ghana illegally through Aflao to Adidome to connect to Accra have also been quarantined at an isolation center.

Mr. Zonyrah told Joy News the district was on top of issues.

He said both the family self-isolating and the two Nigerians put under mandatory are being well catered for by the district assembly.