The 2019 winner of the maiden National Festival of Art and Culture (NAFAC) beauty pageant show Adwoa Ahenewaa Nti also Ambassador for Arts and Tourism has stated that the Coronavirus pandemic has affected the Beauty Pageant industry.
According to her apart from not being able to conduct beauty pageant shows many beauty queens could not carry out their projects as planned.
For her, Covid-19 is having a rippling effect on all sectors of the economy including the entertainment industry therefore imperative for all hands to be on deck to complement the government’s effort to flatten the curve.
Ahenewaa Nti said this in an interview with the media in Koforidua where she commenced a nationwide public education exercise on Coronavirus in collaboration with the Center for National Culture.
She visited the Juaben Serwaa market to sensitize market women on the need to observe the preventive etiquette. She also shared large quantities of nose masks and hand sanitizer to market women and taxi drivers in town.
Ghana has recorded 23,835 confirmed Covid-19 cases with 19,212 recoveries and discharge and 135 deaths as of Saturday 11, 2020.
Out of the total confirmed cases, Eastern Region has recorded 911 in 29 out of 33 Districts and Municipalities as Ten(10) have lost their lives.
However, residents are not adhering to the preventive protocols in the region.
Market women and customers at the main market are the worst offenders.
Speaking to the media, the 2019 face of National Festival of Art and Culture (NAFAC) Adwoa Ahenewaa Nti said Covid-19 is real and continues to spread yet many people are not observing the preventive protocols a phenomenon underpinning her nationwide public education tour on Covid-19.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
