President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has stated that Ghana is the only other country in Africa to have conducted more than sixty thousand tests, ranking it the number one (1) in Africa in administering of tests per million people.
Addressing the nation Sunday, April 19, President Akufo-Addo said his decision to lift the three week old restriction on movements in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area and its contiguous districts was informed by a lot of factors including the country’s ability to undertake aggressive contact tracing of infected persons and the enhancement of Ghana’s capacity to test.
“…the expansion in the numbers of our treatment and isolation centres, our better understanding of the dynamism of the virus, the ramping up of our domestic capacity to produce our own personal protective equipment, sanitisers and medicines, the modest successes chalked at containing the spread of the virus in Accra and Kumasi, and the severe impact on the poor and vulnerable, I have taken the decision to lift the three (3) week old restriction on movements in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area and its contiguous districts, with effect from 1am on Monday, 20th April,” he said.
