The Environmental Health office in the Ho West District of the Volta Region has asked residents to quarantine persons trooping in from Accra and Kumasi ahead of Monday’s lockdown in a bid to contain coronavirus disease in the country.
Mrs Stella Kumedzro, District Officer, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that a mandatory quarantine remained the surest way of safeguarding close relations, households, and community members of returnees from coronavirus-hit areas.
She asked them to provide isolation rooms for the returnees, who must also be closely monitored for symptoms of the viral infection.
Mrs Kumedzro said households must take up the responsibility, and ensure that persons who exhibited such symptoms, which included; coughs, fever, and breathing difficulties were immediately reported to health authorities.
She also stressed on regular handwashing with soap under running water and practice social distancing.
Mrs Kumedzro made an appeal to persons from regions with coronavirus record to remain in those regions not to spread the disease to other parts of the country.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Friday night announced a lockdown of the Greater Accra, Tema, and the Ashanti Regions to halt the spread of COVID 19 in the country.
Source: GNA
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You are mentally retarded!!! Political blindness will unfortunately take you and your followers to the grave. The virus is in Ghana!! What is wrong to quarantine people for 2 weeks to minimize the spread? What is wrong to quarantine people fleeing Accra or Kumasi to other areas for 2 weeks if doing so will minimize the spread? Do you think the majority of us following directives of the government and health care professionals are ***barred word***? Selfishness, blame-game and playing politics even in the middle of a pandemic is beyond sanity. I wish the military will deal ruthlessly with political animals as you!!!
Bullshitt! Quarantine people just because they are from Accra or kumasi? If the president couldn't be competent to put preparations in place before lockdown, who are you to quarantine people for coming back home.