President Nana Akufo-Addo has said Outdoor functions at sporting events, entertainment spots, political rallies, and funerals should resume at full capacity as COVID-19 cases drop in Ghana.
He said all in-person activities, such as those that take place in churches, mosques, conferences, workshops, private parties and events, cinemas, and theatres may resume at full capacity, as long as the audience and/or participants are fully vaccinated and Hand washing and hand sanitizing points should be made available at these venues.
This follows a ban on these activities in April 2020 after the outbreak of the Pandemic COVID-19.
The President in his address also announced revisions to other existing COVID-19 prevention measures.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, as of Friday, 25th March 2022, the total number of active cases stood at seventy-two (72). “There are no severely or critically ill persons. Our COVID-19 treatment centers are empty, and the 4th wave appears to be over. In addition to these very low reported cases is the considerable improvement in the availability and uptake of vaccines by the population.”
He said “Whilst we have not achieved our national vaccination coverage target, it is significant to note that reasonable vaccination coverages have been achieved in the hotspots of infections, particularly in the urban areas of Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi. Government is determined to use all means to increase the deployment of vaccination across the country to achieve our target of vaccinating some twenty million (20 million) Ghanaians by June.”
Nana Akufo-Addo urged who are yet to be vaccinated you to take it, adding, “To those listening to the propaganda by the conspiracy theorists and those who are still skeptical about the efficacy of the vaccine, it has been a year since my wife and I got vaccinated; it has not disrupted our physical wellbeing, neither has it caused us to be sick. We are, touch wood, hale and hearty, like the other 13.1 million Ghanaians who have been vaccinated.”
“With countries in the ECOWAS Community, especially in our neighboring countries, presently, like us, recording very low levels of infections, and having significant numbers of our people vaccinated, and on the advice of the national COVID-19 Taskforce and the health experts, I have taken the decision to revise the COVID-19 Restrictions, enacted under E.I. 64.”
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kofi Atakora
