Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has dismissed reports making round on social media platforms that a student of the university by name Musah Sule who accompanied his friend to the university hospital on the 17th of March, 2020 has disappeared after his friend was tested positive of the COVID-19 virus.
“The attention of the KNUST COVID-19 monitoring team has been drawn to the above news circulating on social media”.
The management in a statement released on March 20 described such reports as fake and has no merit, adding that the alleged person, Musah Sule does not appear in any record of the university.
According to the statement, there has not been any confirmed case of the coronavirus in KNUST.
“The team wishes to assure the general public that there is no reported case of COVID-19 neither at the university’s hospital nor the campus by any member of the university community”.
KNUST orders students to leave campus
Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, directed all students to vacate their hostels and all facilities on the campus.
The decision was arrived at after an emergency executive committee of the university meeting held on March 16, 2020. This follows the directive of the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo on measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Per the university’s directive, Students are to leave campus from Monday, 16 to Saturday, March 21, 2020, by 5:00 PM.
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Story by: John Essien/focusnewsroom.com
