President Nana Akufo-Addo has lifted the three-week partial lockdown imposed in the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi districts with effect from 1 am Monday, 20th April 2020.
This is in spite of the country's Coronavirus case count having increased to 1,042. Total samples tested so far stands at 68,591 with 1.5 % testing positive.
President Akufo-Addo announced this during his seventh address to the nation on the outbreak today, Sunday, April 19, 2020.
Reasons For Lifting Lockdown
According to him, the main reason the country has seen an increase in the number of confirmed cases over the last three weeks is because of the decision to aggressively trace and test contacts of infected persons.
“This has enabled us to identify and isolate infected persons, protect the population from further infections, and contain better the spread of the virus,” he said.
The President continued, “Indeed, Ghana is the only other country in Africa to have conducted more than 60,000 tests, and we are ranked number one in Africa in administering of tests per million people”.
“....in view of our ability to undertake aggressive contact tracing 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 of 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 on 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 its contiguous districts, with effect from 1 am on Monday, 20th April,” he explained.
Observe Protocols
Although the lifting of the restrictions may come as a relief to the many whose livelihoods may have been hit hard following the imposition, access to some major sectors remains restricted.
Th country’s borders remain closed.
Further to these, all other measures including social distancing are also to be adhered to.
Additionally, suspension of public gathering including religious meetings, still stands; likewise the closure of all educational facilities.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Call nana addo to explain to you.
Please am in an aviation institute and we are 6 in each class but we all live in different homes but still our lecturer insist we come to school on the 27 and we the students are scared please I need your help
All those condemning nana are eĂ·d0its fact is the lock down was spreading the disease than before the lockdown thousands fighting over food because of lockdown what better way to spread the disease than this?lockdown only works in the developed world not slums continent like Africa. We must find a better way of stopping the disease not lockdown.
Both parties must be ashamed of themselves for turning a serious pandemic the whole world is fighting so hard against into polities instead of coming together as one to fight a common enermy. How can the government lift the ban when the infection rate keeps going up just because they are under pressure from the public. This is a serious virus that we all need sucrifice to make sure that our lives and every one we love life is protected as safe but all we care about is our selfish needs. We've got terrible health system and we can't just stay home for just even a month to help them? God save us all
In this case where the lockdown is lifted, all donations made into the COVID 19 fund must be returned to its owners, the monies taken from the stabilization and contingency funds but be put back. All loans contracted to fight COVID 19 must be suspended. Nana addo cannot be using this COVID 19 as 419 against the state and rich men in the society. People have made donations so that lockdown can be applied to contain the COVID 19, while monies contributed would be used to help the vulnerables and the poor in times of lockdown. If you have hurriedly open the nation for free for all, then we will not allow you to be keeping the money for your fuuuulish appointees to be enjoying themselves with our contributions. That will never happen. Nana you are are very bad man indeed. No one will trust you from the day forward. Of course some illiterates will celebrate because you have lifted the ban but when they start dying like fowls, then we all see how ediotic this decision is.
Ghana our problem is politics, and until we die out of politics we won't learn sense. Instead of locking down all the affected areas to take control of the virus. We were rather calling for lifting to spread it because of hardship, and the opposition too is in support of people calling for the lifting. Trust me tomorrow they'll still hold a press conference to condemn the lifting. They've been shifting goal poles just to frustrate the government to look unpopular meanwhile, this should have been a fight for all Ghanaians. God save mother Ghana.
EC and NIA will soon announced their schedule. Bam
Purely political, to open up for NEW VOTER REGISTRATION. No better thought went through, JEAN MENSAH ADVISED the President to do that otherwise they will lose the election
Lifting the partial lockdown in Accra and Kumasi metropolis at a time when the total recorded cases have crossed 1000 mark? Hahaha!! It is all for one thing- to continue with the NIA registration and EC New Voter Register agenda. Very soon Prof. Attafuah and Jean Mensah will announce new schedules. When the figure was lower, lockdown was imposed; now it is higher, the lockdown has been lifted. Only Nana Addo and his NPP can explain it. This Party.
In the ***barred word*** kingdom even a camel can be called a king. Is this your kings Solomon? If less lockdown if more open, what a Mathematics equation! Only a wise king of Akyem does this.