KEY POINTS FROM PRESIDENT’S 7TH ADDRESS TO THE NATION ON COVID-19


DATE: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2020

1. Ghana has so far conducted 68,591 tests, out of which a total of 1,042 positive cases (representing 1.5%) have been recorded.
2. The results of 18,000 tests are yet to be released
3. Nine hundred and thirty (930) persons, who have been isolated, are responding to treatment either in their homes or in treatment facilities.
4. Ghana is the only other country in Africa to have conducted more than 60,000 tests; ranked number one (1) in Africa in administering of tests per million people.
5. The three-week partial lockdown imposed on Greater Accra, Kasoa and Greater Kumasi has been lifted; effective 1 am on Monday, April 20, 2020.
6. The decision to lift the lockdown was informed by the enhancement of our capacity to test; the expansion in the numbers of our treatment and isolation centres, and our better understanding of the dynamism of the virus.
7. Other factors are the ramping up of our domestic capacity to produce our PPEs, 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.
8. The ban on public gatherings (including conferences, workshops, funerals, parties, nightclubs, drinking spots, beaches, festivals) are still very much in force.
9. Businesses and other workplaces can continue to operate, observing staff management and workplace protocols with the view to achieving social distancing and hygiene protocols
10. Operators of public transport, including our buses, trotros and taxis, are to continue to run with a minimum number of passengers, as they have been doing for the last three weeks
11. The Ministry of Health will very soon issue guidelines on face masks for public use
12. All bereaved persons are encouraged to conduct private burials of their loved ones, but ensure that the twenty-five (25) person limit is not breached
13. Should there be an unexpected outburst in infections within a community, the health workers and the security services have been put on standby to respond rapidly; if necessary, to cordon, impose a curfew, trace, test, and treat infected persons in the affected community
14. The closure of Ghana's national borders has been extended for two more weeks effective Monday, April 20, 2020.
15. Government has introduced the use of drones to expedite the transportation of samples to laboratory centres; 51 samples were delivered from the Omenako Drone Distribution Centre to Noguchi on Friday, April 17, 2020.
16. The domestic production of PPEs has been ramped up with 14,550 scrubs,  11,900 gowns, 19,980 head covers and 263,281 nose masks. A total of 13,002 N-95 nose masks have so far been delivered to health facilities.
17. Also, 41,117 varying sizes of sanitisers have been produced locally and delivered to health facilities.
18. Persons behind the dissemination of false information are encouraged to stop immediately or face the consequences of their actions.
19. The disbursement of GH¢600 million soft loan scheme for SMEs will commence in May 2020
20. Over 2.5 million cooked food packs were provided to vulnerable persons in the affected districts of Accra and Kumasi during the lockdown with 470,000 dry food packs were provided to affected families in the same areas.
21. The recent $1 billion Rapid Credit Facility, secured from the IMF will be used to help close the financing gap that has been created by the pandemic through shortfalls in revenues and additional expenditures.
22. Whenever the situation so warrants, a community in which the virus is identified as becoming prevalent will be locked-down, until there is a clear understanding of the trajectory of the virus that will allow us to contain it.

Brought to you by CrediComms Limited’s Monitoring Team on COVID-19.

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