Presidential Health Advisor, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare has assured that the decision to lift the COVID-19 restrictions by President Akuffo Addo will not be reversed.
According to Dr Nsiah-Asare, the president decided to lift the restrictions on the advice of Ghana’s COVID-19 Task Force and also because of the reduced cases of infections in Ghana and its neighbouring countries.
In Authority of this Bohyeba Afriyie interviewed Dr Rockson Adjei public health specialist on plan B FM’s Ebanoosen and he said that , “the President did Research and took advice from some specialists who gave him the information That after looking into all the important details including the number of cases in Ghana, the number of cases in the West-African sub-region, he should lift the restrictions.
Asked whether the task force gave the president the right advice, Dr Rockson said, “yes, but in the event that some cases are recorded, there is a strategy to handle such cases… where there are a lot of cases in a particular place, health workers will be sent to that particular location to contain the situation.”
He added suggestions that the president’s decision was not based on any data, saying that anybody who wants to see the number of cases in countries surrounding Ghana should visit the World Health Organisation COVID-19 website.
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