Dr. Serebour speaking on PureFM, a private radio station based in Kumasi noted that the government should be looking at dealing with all the 16 regions, and not only Greater Accra, Greater Kumasi and Kasoa, because there have being reports of cases all over and almost in all the regions.
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“I think the conversation should shift to the point that now we need to be tackling the whole country in general. Whether there are recorded cases or not. I think the whole country would have to come under some degree of restriction. It shouldn’t be limited to Accra and Kumasi. This is what we requested for some weeks ago and people started calling us all sort of names”, he noted.
The GMA Vice President, reacting to the current partial lockdown said, “honestly, I don’t call this a lockdown. What we’re experiencing is restriction. Even this restriction is very lax. This fuse into our earlier call. When we first brought it up, some wise people said we were not wise enough to request for a lockdown. Kwame, you can tell that as we speak now, all the other regions have recorded cases including my hometown- Bekwai. Therefore, it is important to consider restrictions in the whole country”.
Ghana Medical Association in a few weeks ago came under strong criticisms when they called on the government to lockdown parts of the country to restrict movements after some case of the coronavirus were first recorded.
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Dr. Serebour was of the view that, though we are in partial lockdown, the President Akufo-Addo opened window of opportunity for persons to flee from these affected regions taking into consideration the time he made the announcement and the day the lockdown started.
“What really went wrong under the lockdown was that window of opportunity. People had to flee from their various regions to other regions. And we are compounding that problem with the food sharing exercise. It is better we didn’t have it”, he said.
In a related development, the Progressive People’s Party(PPP) and Bearau of Public Safety has also called on government to declare a nationwide lockdown to help deal with covid-19.
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