We would like to share our impression on the report ‘Postmortem diagnosis of COVID-19: Antemortem challenges of three cases at the 37 Military Hospital, Accra, Ghana’.
In our article we did not go into details on the methodology. Although COVID-19 is a category 3 infectious agent, negative pressure systems are unavailable in our country. Therefore, a few modifications were made.
Post-mortems were performed using World Health Organization’s interim guidance for infection prevention and control for the safe management of a dead body in the context of COVID-19.
It is interesting to note that none of the forensic pathologists nor the anatomical pathology technicians involved in the study have shown COVID-19 symptoms up to today.
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
R.M. and V.W. have equal contributions in giving ideas, drafting, analysing, writing and giving final approval for this submission.
This article followed all ethical standards for research without direct contact with human or animal subjects.
This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.
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