The Achiase District Assembly in the Eastern Region has mounted road blocks at all four main routes that enter the district to screen passengers before allowing them entry into the area. As part of the exercise, the travel history of the passengers and their temperature are taken.
The move is to prevent the sending into the area by passengers the novel coronavirus disease. The exercise which began on Wednesday screens about 900 passengers daily.
The road blocks have been mounted at Akenkausu and Achiase secondary school junction to screen those entering from Assin Fosu and Asikuma Odoben Brakwa respectively, both districts in the Central Region.
The other blocks are at Anamase and Achiase fire service station to screen those entering from the Asene Manso Akroso district and the Birim South respectively, both in the Eastern Region.
Paramedics from the Achiase Jungle Warfare School are leading the exercise.
District Chief Executive for the area, Richmond Amponsah Agyabeng, said the move is part of measures to contain the Covid-19 disease from spreading to the area. He stated that non-indigenes who exhibit symptoms of the disease upon screening shall be made to return to without entering the area.
In the case of indigenes who are suspected of the disease after screening, however, the district has set up an isolation centre to isolate such persons and monitor them for the 14 days mandatory period.
He pleaded with the public to bear with the situation since the country is not in normal times.
