Be Happy As Schools Are Not Reopening Soon - Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has denied media reports that schools will soon reopen amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Tending to the media Thursday, May 21, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah said those reports were bogus.
As per him, the government had just begun connecting with instructor associations, guardians, and other significant partners on the stuff to revive schools to guarantee the wellbeing of teachers and students.
“There was a media report which said schools to reopen soon. With all due respect, that is not true… Consultations of what it takes to reopen schools as part of the potential easing of the general restrictions that we’re living under are what have started,” he said at the news conference.
On his part, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye, unveiled that a sum of six people who get the infection is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
He included that none of the six was on a ventilator.
As a major aspect of measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the government set a few controls on development in the country.
Schools were closed, strict exercises and all social or open get-togethers were additionally set aside momentarily. Burial services were, be that as it may, permitted yet with an admonition of just 25 individuals in participation.
Following the burden of these barriers, some stakeholders have pushed for the limitations to be lifted. Be that as it may, analysts have kicked against any planned move to lift the limitations on developments particularly at a time where the country continues to record increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections.
As of May 21, 2020, Ghana's COVID-19 case check remained at 6,269 with 1,898 recuperations. The case tally expanded from 6,096. This implies 173 new cases had been identified.
Thirty-one others have passed on from the disease.
President Akufo-Addo shut the nation's outskirts until May 31, 2020, as a major aspect of moves to check the importation of coronavirus cases. The fringe conclusion, nonetheless, didn't influence freight and crisis flights.
The Greater Accra Region tops the list of regions infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 with a total of 4,582 recorded cases.
It is trailed by the Ashanti Region with 921 contaminations and the Central Region setting third on the rundown of locales with COVID-19 with an aggregate of 285 revealed cases.
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