Nana Akufo-Addo, the president of the republic of Ghana has charged Christians and Muslims to say a special prayer of gratitude for the nation’s health since Covid-19 era coming Saturday and Sunday, i.e 3rd and 4th June 2023.
He said the Country is a God-fearing and a God-loving nation, and that is why throughout his presidency, he has consistently stressed that the Battle is the Lord’s, thus, three years ago, when the pandemic first hit Ghana, he asked for a National Day of Prayer and Fasting for God’s help to be observed on 25th March, 2020.
Addressing the nation on Sunday, 28th May 2023 Updates To Ghana’s Enhanced Response, Nana Akufo-Addo said now that the Lord has heard Ghanaians prayers and seen them through this COVID trial,there is the need to thank God in a special way.
Some three weeks ago, on 5th May, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that COVID was no longer a public health emergency of global concern.
As at 15th May, 2023 in Ghana, there have been one thousand, four hundred and sixty-two (1,462) deaths attributable to Covid-19 in Ghana, with the last death being recorded on 8th January, 2023.
In general, since the first case was confirmed in our country on March 12, 2020, there have been one hundred and seventy-one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-eight (171,758) positive cases from two million, five hundred and thirty-eight thousand, one hundred and ninety-eight (2,538,198) tests. You would recall that we started the Covid vaccination campaign in March 2021 and, as at 25th May 2023, twenty-five million, one hundred and seventy thousand, three hundred and eighty-two (25,170,382) vaccine doses have been administered.
There are ten million, five hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred and twenty (10,536,420) fully vaccinated people, that is, 52.7% out of the twenty million (20 million) people target we had set, with four million, five hundred and ninety-nine thousand, eight hundred and eighty three (4,599,883) persons having received booster doses.
Source: mybrytfmonline/ Mensah Atakora
