The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, is calling for the establishment of Isolation Centers to manage COVID-19 cases and also a mass testing exercise for residents living in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality.
A statement issued Saturday, April 11, 2020, by the Regional Communication Officer of the party, Dallas Williams said
“We call on the Akufo-Addo government to as a matter of urgency start mass testing in the Eastern Region, most especially, in the affected areas, as an appropriate measure to contain the Coronavirus from further spread”
28 out of 244 quarantined Workers of AFCON Construction Company working on Tema to Akosombo to Mpakadan Railway project have tested positive for COVID-19. The number is just half of the total samples being tested.
According to the NDC, some railway workers tested positive of COVID-19 in Kpong mingled with residents during the mass registration exercise for Ghana Card by the National Identification Authority.
“A number of the railway workers in Belokope Quarters who have been infected by the disease were spotted at New Covenant Apostle Church, a registration center of the Ahodwo Electoral Area in the Lower Manya District. There is also the suspicion and possibility that some moved to the nearby registration centers such as E. P Kpong Church and Kpong Presby Centers.
After the news broke whilst they were supposed to be on self-quarantine, a number of them were seen frolicking with their girlfriends in beer bars and pubs in the district raising a suspicion that they might have spread the disease through numerous chains of contacts. This has created fear in the adjoining and Contiguous Districts such as Upper Manya, Yilo, Asuogyaman, Okere, Akropong, and New Juaben North and south, because of daily trade across these districts by traders who might not know who has it or who has not the disease”
According to the NDC, this was “an act of irresponsibility on the part of president Akufo-Addo not to have called his appointee Ken Attafuah who turned a deaf ear to all experts’ advice to suspend the exercise when even HE, the president, had announced that we were not in normal times.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
