Afconz Infrastructure Limited, an Indian railway company undertaking the Tema to Mphakadan Railway project has donated to support the fight against Coronavirus in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality.
The Company, on Saturday, April 18, 2020, donated 250 bags of 5-kilogram rice, 200 packages each containing alcohol-based hand sanitizers, nose masks, and Liquid soap among others.
The Presentation was made on behalf of the company by Mr. William Attipoe, Compliance Officer of the company to the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Emergency Health committee.
The Municipal Chief Executive, Simon Kwaku Tetteh who received the items commended the company for the support but urged them to help the Health Committee get enough Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs).
Eastern region has recorded ten (10) new confirmed cases of coronavirus increasing the regional Count from 41 to 51 as of April 18, 2020.
The region is just 8 cases low behind Ashanti Region which has recorded 59 cases with Greater Accra Region unenviably dominating with 685 confirmed cases. The current national tally is now 834.
Apart from Fanteakwa North which has recorded a confirmed case, the rest are being recorded in the Eastern Region are from among construction workers with Afconz Infrastructural Limited in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality.
There have been calls for an immediate lockdown of the region by many individuals and groups including the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in the Health-Eastern regional branch but the Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Darfour says the calls are premature given that most of the cases recorded are confined. He however said, the situation is being monitored by the Regional Security Council and that lockdown could not be ruled out when the time is ripped for President Akufo-Addo who is commander in chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, to do so.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
