President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that a total of twenty thousand one hundred and ten (20,110) people were given National Honours to most of the frontline workers who had been in the trenches as it were in the COVID battle.
He said Fifty-four thousand (54,000) additional health workers were hired, and all health workers obtained a tax rebate.
Nana Akufo-Addo said this when he addressed the nation on his 29th Covid-19 update.
The president said Fighting covid has been a very expensive undertaking characterized, as it was, by lockdowns, closed borders, minimal economic activity and the consequential steep decline in revenues.
He said the testing for the millions who went to public laboratories; the quarantine of arrivals from outside the country, hospital admissions, treatments and feeding for all patients were publicly funded and cost vast sums of money.
Nana Akufo-Addo said the vaccination programme was expensive, very expensive; even though we received some donated vaccines, we purchased a lot with our own resources, and the multiple country-wide vaccination campaigns cost a lot of money.
Source:Mybrytfmonline/ Mensah Atakora
