Ghana is being globally celebrated for the measures it has put in place in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
According to Chairman of Risk Communication and Social Mobilisation Committee for Ghana’s COVID-19 Response team, Dr Dacosta Aboagye, the country’s commendation is so because of the good leadership President Nana Addo has exhibited against the fight of COVID-19.
Speaking on Hard Facts with Akosua Manu on Happy 98.9 FM. Dr Dacosta said, “If you could remember when the pandemic broke out, the whole world thought it will be worse in Africa and in Ghana but the hard work of the health service, the Government and Ghanaians is legendary, so I’m not surprised that Ghana is being celebrated globally. Every decision the President takes on COVID-19, he thinks through it thoroughly and carefully. He will interrogate every suggestion and strategy if he [Nana Addo] is not convinced he will not make a decision on it.
“This whole fight against COVID-19 is about leadership. Ghana is being celebrated globally because we have a good leader like Nana Addo.,” he added.
He also revealed that Ghana has been identified among four others with the most innovative and effective plans in the management of the pandemic. According to Dr Aboagye, the commendation also comes on the back of “measures such as the use of drones to deliver samples for testing at the test centres and personal protective equipment (PPE) to health facilities.
Others were the closure of the borders and the mandatory quarantine of all travellers who arrived in the country within a certain period, the strict compliance with preventive measures and the ban on social and public gatherings early enough to curb rapid community spread, he disclosed.
Ghana’s COVID-19 active case count as at today 22nd October 2020, stands at 397, with forty-six thousand, 46,752 persons fully recovered from the virus, putting our recovery rate at 98.5%. The total number of deaths, tragically, stands at three hundred and twelve (312), out of a total number of five hundred and ten thousand, and seventy-four (510,074) persons tested. The rate of death, 0.5%, continues to remain very low.
By: Joseph Nii Ankrah