As at Friday, 28th August, the number of active cases of Novel COVID-19 in Ghana has reduced to one thousand, and fifty-nine (1,059) persons with and two hundred and seventy-six (276) deaths.
According to President Akufo-Addo, a great majority of them with underlying illnesses, such as hypertension, diabetes and chronic liver disease, have sadly died.
A total of forty-two thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three (42,963) persons have recovered,according to Nana Akufo-Addo during his 16th COVID address.
He said “In as much as these statistics are encouraging, in contrast to what is pertaining in several countries across the world, we cannot afford to let our guard down. We have to maintain, in a state of constant readiness, the enhanced infrastructure and expertise we have built during the period of the virus to cope with it. I have been reliably informed that, in some regions of our country where there are no active cases, some residents are abandoning, altogether, the protocols, such as the wearing of masks, put in place to defeat the virus. Indeed, the high compliance rate with mask wearing of persons surveyed by the Ghana Health Service in some selected areas of Accra, to which I referred optimistically in my last address, has, according to a new survey by the same Service, fallen alarmingly. This is not acceptable, as the enhanced hygiene, mask wearing and social distancing protocols must now be central features of our lives, and they must continue to remain so for some time to come, until we see to the elimination of the virus from our country.”
“Let me remind those amongst us, who want to continue to disregard these protocols, that severe sanctions exist in our laws for such persons, who will want to endanger the rest of the population through their actions and negligence. The law enforcement agencies will, where necessary, apply these measures without fear or favour, ill-will or malice, and without recourse to a person’s ethnicity, gender or religion”,the president added.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
