Former President John Dramani Mahama has supported projections that millions of people could be infected by coronavirus in the country.
Speaking via a digital conversation Thursday evening on Ghana's COVID-19 situation, former President Mahama noted that in view of the current number of cases recorded in the nation, there is the possibility that about 3 million Ghanaians may contract the virus and a significant number of the infected persons may die.
"The model government is working with, the projection is that up to 3 million Ghanaians may be infected by the virus and a significant number may require hospitalization or may even die from the virus," he emphasized.
The former President was worried this prediction might come to pass due to President Akufo-Addo's lifting of restrictions on movement and his decisions in fighting against the pandemic.
"In his last address to the country, President Nana Akufo-Addo lifted the partial lockdown imposed on Greater Accra, Greater Kumasi and their environs and Kasoa. At the time the country was recording increasingly higher infections, it was therefore not surprising that many Ghanaians including public health experts were puzzled about the considerations underlying the President's decision. The number of infections are not only rising steeply but there is also clearly a horizontal community spread of the virus. The majority of the Regions in our country have reported cases and the bulk of the positive cases we're seeing are of people who have no history of foreign travel."
Mr. Mahama wondered whether the President considered the "huge backlog of tests that have not yet been cleared and the many possible cases roaming in our communities that have not yet been tested due to a lack of mass testing" before arriving at his decision.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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EVEN IF NANA ADDO IS NOT READY FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS,BETTER WE CHOOSE MADAM AKUA DONNKOR.JOHN MAHAMA AGAIN?NEVER ON THIS EARTH-THIS AIRBUS MAGICIAN,atta mills death we NEED EXPLANNATION .salute
A.) ex-president B.)ex-Vice President C.) ex-member of parliament D.)ex- secretary of state What agin do you want? God has been grateful to you and your family, and as a result do you think Ghanaians are ungrateful to dole these positions to you? If not for greediness, what else do you want in this world?
Why should people spend their preciuos time on this criminal Mahama? Why should people continue to give this th14f audience? What intervention did John Dramani Mahama give during the atrocious era of Dumsor? Did he give any bail out or stimulus to the many companies that folded up during his time. He was busily doing business with Airbus and Karpower to cut his share big time. You are a stup*d person to open your mouth into what bothers the country now. Very soon you will see your meter. Even children knows that this gentleman did not think any good for Ghana. He only came to steal. The saying is, God no bi Alataman. You thought no one will see you. The God in heaven was watching your buttocks at the time you push your hands into the crab hole. Dwulor. Okromfour like you.
Mahama is still in his "yentie obiara" and ***barred word*** trance. He listens to himself and nobody else. The WHO hypothesis is based on Africa not doing anything. President Akufo Addo with the able professionals working for us has done things that even the great America seems to be copying. As a matter of fact, America in the fight of COVID-19 is far behind Ghana in Contact Tracing, Testing and Treatment which has been the hallmark of Ghana's fight against the virus. John Mahama is wishing for Ghana's devastation by the SAR CoV-2 if he cannot be president. But still the battle is the Lord's.
Would someone please tell him to get lost?
PeaceFmOnLine stop this behaviour! Ghana does not and cannot have two presidents! Everything Mahama says become news for you. Why?
JM, please comment on airbus and the power deal!
Nana should listen if he says he is a listening govt.Ex president is also a citizen of our motherland.Nana please grow your ears to listen-not for wearing ear rings.
we are all worried.... This is the worst case scenario by WHO if our government do nothing. This desperate guy is trying very hard to use this covid to do his politics. I don't think is is working for him. I hope you will soon address your involvement in the rotten airbus bribery as well.
Oh ***barred word*** please!