Gov’t is tired of COVID-19 fight – Health Minister

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has said the increasing number of the novel Coronavirus in Ghana has caused a major setback in the Government sector despite numerous interventions and public education on the disease.

According to him, President Akufo-Addo and Health officials at the forefront fighting the disease are tired already adding that Ghanaians must take personal responsibility to protect themselves from contracting the virus.

“If we don’t do that, the virus will continue to spread. Our positive cases continue to increase, if we are not careful the positive cases will turn into critical illness. Nana Addo is tired. Those of us leading the fight are fatigued because we have done all that we could to defeat the virus but people are not adhering to the preventive protocols. So I am begging everyone to adhere to hand washing, social distancing and wearing of masks directives to help save the country some money and reduce the stress in fighting this disease” he said.

The Health Minister who also doubles as the Member of Parliament for Dormaa Central Constituency said this over the weekend when he commissioned a Police Station and CHPS Compound he built at Dormaa Nsesreso a border community.

He added “In Bono Region we have not recorded many cases, the Regional Minister tells me our case count is 19 now. The Disease has come to stay with us, it is not going away anytime soon so all that we have to do is to adhere to the preventive protocols. Wearing or masks and hand washing not encouraging in Bono.

Some people have their masks kept in their pocket. Yesterday I caused the arrest of some people, the voluntary compliance is not working so we have to use the police to arrest and prosecute”.

Ghana’s Covid-19 Figures

Ghana’s COVID-19 case count currently stands at 20,085 [as of July 6, 2020] after the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said it recorded 1,455 new cases.

The GHS also recorded five new Covid-19-related deaths, pushing the toll to 122 from the previous 117.

The number of people discharged from Covid-19 treatment centres has been pegged at 14,870 and according to the GHS, active Covid-19 cases are now 5,093.

The Greater Accra Region has the highest number of cases at 10,979, followed by the Ashanti Region with 4,244.

The Western Region has 1,729 cases; Central Region, 983 cases; Eastern Region, 798 cases; Volta Region, 362 cases and the Upper East Region, 278 cases.

The Western North Region has 154 cases; Northern Region, 137 cases; Bono East Region, 136 cases and Oti Region, 112 cases.

The Upper West Region, 55 cases; Savannah Region, 46 cases; Bono Region, 38 cases; Ahafo Region, 26 cases and North East Region, eight cases.