The Member of Parliament for Suhum, Frederick Opare Ansah, has called Ghanaians to help Government contain the spread of Coronavirus Pandemic in the country to avoid total lockdown which would be disadvantage to every Ghanaian particularly businesses.
According to him, many people are apprehensive about lockdown but still apathetic to the preventive regimes of COVID-19.
Ghana has recorded 287 cases of Coronavirus with 5 deaths as of April 7, 2020. The regional distribution of the cases is as follows: Greater Accra Region has most cases (258) followed by the Ashanti Region (18), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1) and Upper East Region (1).
President of Ghana Akufo-Addo on March 27, 2020, announced a partial lockdown of the Nation’s Capital-Accra and Parts of Greater Kumasi for two weeks as an enhanced measure to prevent increasing community spread having closed down all Borders -Land, sea and Air spaces. The government also imposed mandatory 14 days quarantine for all returnees.
According Hon. Opare Ansah, President Akufo-Addo will have no other option than to lock down the entire country should the virus spread rapidly across all regions, therefore, advised Ghanaians to play their parts to help curb the pandemic.
The Law Maker said this when he launched a COVID-19 project dubbed ‘Suhum MPs Support Projects’ in his quest to complement government effort towards fighting the deadly coronavirus.
The MP distributed items such as Poly tanks, Veronica buckets, alcohol-based hand sanitizers, spraying machines, tissue papers among others worth GH¢200,000.
He also donated ten (10) Personal Protective Equipment, PPEs, to the Municipal Health Directorate.
The MP has also formed a group of volunteers made up of over 100 persons drawn from NADMO and political support groups trained by Ghana Health Service to embark on Public Education on the disease.
The MP said, hand sanitizer dispensing facilities would be distributed in all 29 electoral areas in the municipality if the trend of the pandemic does not come down, for residents to have access to sanitizers.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com
