Total lockdown in Ghana imminent -GMA President
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
The President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Frank Ankobia, has hinted of a possible total lockdown in the country, saying personnel of the health sector were becoming increasingly worried over the cases, insisting a lockdown would be the ultimate solution if all measures fail.
He accused Ghanaians of the poor habit of adhering to the laid down COVID-19 protocols, and urged them to ensure they observe all the stipulated COVID-19 protocols to help avoid any timetable for a possible total lockdown in the country.
Noguchi Memorial Institute
Ghana appears to be living on a health time-bomb with seeming disregard for COVID-19 protocols despite increase in the country’s active cases and reports of new strain of the virus in neighbouring Nigeria.
Markets, malls and shops are chockfull with selling and buying done everywhere, street corners and road shoulders inclusive, with neglect to the protocols.
At the Accra Tema Station and the Makola Markets in the Central Business District of the national capital, the Ghana News Agency observed that, most sellers and buyers have abandoned the wearing of nose masks.
There is no sight of hand washing stations as used to be the case months ago.