Ghana has recorded more than 1,000 additional cases of COVID-19
since the country lifted its lockdown.
Last week, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo lifted a three-week
lockdown on the basis of “improved coronavirus testing”.
The Ghanaian president had said non-essential businesses in
Accra and Kumasi could reopen but under guidelines of social
distancing.
He said Ghanaians should make use of face masks in public
places.
“In view of our ability to undertake aggressive contact of
infected persons, the enhancement of our capacity to test, the
expansion in the numbers of our treatment and isolation centres,
our better understanding of the dynamism of the virus, the ramping
up our domestic capacity to produce our own personal protective
equipment, sanitisers and medicines, the modest successes chalked
at containing the spread of the virus in Accra and Kumasi, and the
severe impact of the poor and vulnerable, I have taken the decision
to lift the three-week-old restriction on movements in the Greater
Accra Metropolitan Area and Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi
Metropolitan Area and the contiguous districts, with effect from
1am on Monday, 20th April,” he had said.
As of April 19 when the lockdown was lifted, the country had
recorded 1,042 cases, and 99 recoveries.
However, figures from the Ghana’s ministry of health on Thursday
showed that the country currently has 2,074 confirmed cases of
COVID-19, out of which 212 recoveries and 17 deaths have been
recorded.
This implies an increase of 1,032 cases since the lockdown was
lifted.
Ghana is the first country in the West African region to lift
the restriction on movement.
Similarly, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari had announced
the partial reopening of the country’s economy after five weeks of
lockdown.
A nationwide curfew is expected to commence on May 4, while a
ban on school activities and religious gatherings will remain.
Ghana has recorded more than 1,000 additional cases of COVID-19
since the country lifted its lockdown.
Last week, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo lifted a three-week
lockdown on the basis of “improved coronavirus testing”.
The Ghanaian president had said non-essential businesses in
Accra and Kumasi could reopen but under guidelines of social
distancing.
He said Ghanaians should make use of face masks in public
places.
“In view of our ability to undertake aggressive contact of
infected persons, the enhancement of our capacity to test, the
expansion in the numbers of our treatment and isolation centres,
our better understanding of the dynamism of the virus, the ramping
up our domestic capacity to produce our own personal protective
equipment, sanitisers and medicines, the modest successes chalked
at containing the spread of the virus in Accra and Kumasi, and the
severe impact of the poor and vulnerable, I have taken the decision
to lift the three-week-old restriction on movements in the Greater
Accra Metropolitan Area and Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi
Metropolitan Area and the contiguous districts, with effect from
1am on Monday, 20th April,” he had said.
As of April 19 when the lockdown was lifted, the country had
recorded 1,042 cases, and 99 recoveries.
However, figures from the Ghana’s ministry of health on Thursday
showed that the country currently has 2,074 confirmed cases of
COVID-19, out of which 212 recoveries and 17 deaths have been
recorded.
This implies an increase of 1,032 cases since the lockdown was
lifted.
Ghana is the first country in the West African region to lift
the restriction on movement.
Similarly, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari had announced
the partial reopening of the country’s economy after five weeks of
lockdown.
A nationwide curfew is expected to commence on May 4, while a
ban on school activities and religious gatherings will remain.