Evaluation of tuberculosis surveillance system in a municipality in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic identification, collection, collation, analysis, and interpretation of disease occurrence and public health event data, to take timely and robust action, such as disseminating the resulting information to the relevant people, for effective and appropriate action. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the micro-organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The main objective of this study was to describe the operation and performance of the TB surveillance system in a municipality in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic.