The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has appealed to the government to make COVID-19 testing free to encourage more people to test and know their status.
According to Dr. Yaw Baah, Secretary-General of TUC, “From the figures I know, just about two percent of Ghanaians have been vaccinated fully. That is not good. We know that in countries where they have been vaccinated, they are almost getting back to their normal life, footballs and so on, we see them on the television,” he said.
Dr. Yaw Baah, Secretary-General of TUC, said this at a sensitization forum, which forms part of TUC and Danish Trade Union Development Agency (DTDA) COVID-19 Recovery Project, aims at getting more people, especially those in the informal sector to get vaccinated against the disease to enable the State to achieve herd immunity.
The four-day forum, taking place in the country’s COVID-19 hotspot regions; the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions, is expected to benefit more than 500 workers in the informal sector.
Ghana since 2020 has conducted 1,678,470 COVID-19 tests and 123,521 have been confirmed positive.
Active cases as of 8th September were 5,073 with 1,096 deaths.
A total of 125 patients are in severe and 44 others are in critical condition.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
