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Ghana president self-isolates despite negative virus test

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo addresses the Investing in African Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town

Ghana's president has gone into self-isolation for two weeks as a precautionary measure despite testing negative for coronavirus, the government said, after one of his contacts was confirmed to have the illness.

President Nana Akufo-Addo began his quarantine on Saturday and will be working from the presidential villa in Accra, capital of the West African country, the information minister said in a statement.

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