The Director of Operations for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu has called on the ruling govenrment to restrict Chinese nationals from coming into the country in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
There is currently an outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China.
Over the weekend, there was a reported case of a Coronavirus patient in Cote D'Ivoire.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Health Service has announced stringent measures and scrutiny for visitors entering into the country from China and its neighbouring countries.
Nana Ofori feels there should be an embargo preventing visitors from China and its neighbouring countries in Asia from visiting Ghana.
"If this outbreak occurs in our villages, how will we deal with this issue especially with these Chinese nationals in our midst? Their citizens are flying into Ghana every now and then, and so what are we doing to prevent this epidemic. How come we can’t stop the Chinese from coming into our country so that when they lift their quarantine then we also lift our embargo. It is time we consider lives of Ghanaian as worth protecting...We must deal with this situation…Prevention is better than cure," he said on Peace FM morning show 'Kokrokoo'
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We will get what we want if we continue accepting everything with 2 legs into our country
yeah this guy NANA OFFORI is damn right. Authorities at the kotoka Airport should intensify their controls by checking all Chinese entering our country are free from this Virus becuase if a chinese have this virus and he/she visit a village and one person in the village get infected do you know how fast it will spread. The question is: do we have the personnel, infrastructure, the money to deal with that so it is better we prevent before it get escalated even if it is means closing our boarder for the chinese for a short while we should encourage it.
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