There is a total disregard for the Covid-19 Safety Protocols in some main markets in Accra.
The government announced the safety protocols of hand washing, use of hand sanitisers and social distancing to help curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr Shaibu Abdulai, a resident and patron of the Nima Market in an interview with GNA, said he believed that the Coronavirus disease had gone.
He said although they had been hearing of the emergence of new cases in the country, they were yet to see people suffering from the disease, hence the non-compliance to the safety guidelines.
Mr Shaibu said the non-enforcement of the laws that compelled people to wear nose mask was another reason individuals not to follow the protocols.
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.
2020 in Review: Journalists arrested, harassed for their work in 2020 The whole of chapter 12 of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution is dedicated to ensure the freedom and independence of the media. Over the years, media rights organisations and institutions have advocated for the creation of an enabling environment for persons in the media to practice freely and governments over the years have also played various roles in ensuring same. However, there has been recurrent records of attacks, intimidation, arrests and sometimes assassination of journalists in the country. GhanaWeb as part of its assessment of 2020 has put together a list of journalists who were victims of the aforementioned during the year: