Goaso (Ahafo), March 30, GNA – The Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council(RCC) is collaborating with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to identify and conduct mandatory test on persons who have moved to the region following the partial lockdown in some parts of the country.
Since President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the lockdown on Friday, March 27 to take effect Monday, March 30 in parts of Greater Accra and Kumasi metropolitan areas, most hit of the COVID-19, there have been reports of influx of people into Ahafo, Bono and Bono East regions.
Accordingly, Mr Evans Opoku-Bobie, the Ahafo Regional Minister said the RCC had intensified precautionary measures to stem possible spread of the virus in the region.
He said the RCC would soon meet with the executives of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) and the Progressive Transport Owners Association (PROTOA) to see the possibility of testing people who would be traveling from the lockdown areas into the region.
Interacting with journalists prior to the start of the disinfection of some markets at Goaso, the Ahafo regional capital, Mr. Opoku-Bobie emphasised that COVID-19 infection was no respecter of persons, hence, the need for concerted efforts to tackle it.
He called on the chiefs and people to volunteer information on people who had arrived in the communities for them to be tested, saying, the region had prepared adequately to contain the spread of the disease.
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management and sanitation firm, disinfected 43 major markets in the region on Monday.
Also, 125 markets in Bono and 78 markets in the Bono East regions were disinfected to enhance hygiene, as the nation steps up measures to prevent the spread of the novel Coronavirus Disease.
The exercise, the Ghana News Agency (GNA) learnt, started in all the 246 identifiable markets in the three regions simultaneously.
As at 0600 hours, Zoomlion had divided its personnel and deployed spraying gangs to various markets amidst tight Police and Military presence to ensure orderliness.
Mr. Opoku-Bobie tasked the Municipal and District Assemblies in the region to promote environmental cleanliness and ensure that veronica buckets with water and soaps were placed at public places to aid hand washing under running water.
Mr Yaw Osei Boahen, the Asunafo North Municipal Chief Executive told the GNA that the Assembly intended to construct mechanised boreholes in some markets in the Municipality to ensure regular supply of water.
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