Ghana has on Monday, lifted its total lockdown order, despite recording over 1,000 Covid-19 cases.
Speaking, the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, said in a televised address: “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 1am, on Monday, 20th April.
”His full statement read: “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 1am, on Monday, 20th AprTheThee announcement has attracted mixed reactions from Ghanaians, because the country has recorded over 1,024 Covid-19 cases.Ghana has an estimated population of 31,072,940 people.So far, the coronavirus has claimed 99 lives, while over 60,000 people have been tested in the West African country.
