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New Patriotic Party (NPP) bigwig, Nana Fredua has charged Ghanaian virologists and health experts to develop Coronavirus vaccines for the nation.

According to him, the country shouldn't wait for the vaccines to arrive from abroad before it is administered to treat the pandemic disease.

He made this comment in his submissions on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'' on Monday, January 18.

It's extremely worrying as Ghana's Coronavirus case is on the rise with the country currently recording 1924 active cases.

Addressing the nation on Sunday, January 17, 2021, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo issued a caution to the citizenry and pledged to enforce the safety protocols.

"Particularly worrying is the fact that the Ghana Health Service is recording, on the average, two hundred (200) new cases of COVID infections daily. The number of patients requiring hospitalisation and intensive care is rising. The number of severe cases, which stood at eighteen (18) a week ago, has increased sharply to one hundred and twenty (120). Two weeks ago, there was no critical case, we now have thirty-three (33) in our treatment facilities. Again, according to statistics from the Ghana Health Service, the considerable number of persons who are severely ill are, surprisingly, relatively youthful persons, with no previous underlying health conditions. The number of confirmed deaths has increased, sadly, from three hundred and thirty-eight (338) persons to three hundred and fifty-two (352) within the period.

"Fellow Ghanaians, at this current rate, whereby thirteen (13) out of the sixteen (16) regions have recorded active cases, our healthcare infrastructure will be overwhelmed. If this situation continues, it will severely undermine the efforts Government is making to revitalize the economy and put our nation back onto the path of progress and prosperity, following the ravages of the pandemic'," he warned.

He also hinted of a possible lockdown should Ghanaians fail to heed his call to observe the protocols to avoid the upsurge in cases.

"We do not want to go back to the days of partial lockdown . . . but should that become necessary that should the number of active cases continue to increase at the current rate, I'll have no option but to reimpose these restrictions because it is better to be safe than sorry."

Nana Fredua, reacting to the current case count, wondered why the wait by the country's health personnel to discover and develop an antidote for the disease that has since proven to be fatal and spreading quickly.

"I don't believe we have to wait for the Whites; they do it (vaccines) for themselves and give us the leftover and even with the leftover, we're sometimes afraid. Let's develop our own vaccines," he urged.

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