Paul Asare Ansah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Asuogyaman Constituency, has called on all chiefs, pastors, MPs, DCEs and other opinion leaders in the various communities to exercise firm leadership in their localities to help stop the spread of the novel Coronavirus.
Mr Ansah made the call when he disrupted and addressed a group of young men playing a friendly football game at New Senchi in the Asuogyaman Constituency.
The aspiring MP was distributing hand washing sets to chiefs’ palaces and clinics in the neighbourhoods when he came across the young men aggressively playing football.
Immediately, he stopped them from continuing the game to enforce the social distancing protocol required to stop the spread of the pandemic.
He advised the youth to take President Akufo Addo’s directives of social distancing and hand washing seriously especially when the first case of corona virus infection had been recorded in a nearby constituency just eight kilometres away.
He thanked the youth for listening to him and gave them some funds to buy extra footballs for their game after flattening the Coronavirus hopefully in a few weeks’ time.
On Wednesday, the Eastern Region recorded a first case of the novel Coronavirus.
The patient, who is an Indian working with the construction company building the railway from Tema to Akosombo, returned into the country a few days ago after he had visited his home country.
He has since been quarantined and receiving treatment at an isolated facility at Kpong.
Health authorities have begun tracing people who might have gone into some contact with the patient.
The Lower Manya Municipal Health Director, Bismark Sarkodie, who confirmed the case to The Chronicle via the telephone on Thursday, explained that persons who had gone into contact with the victim would be quarantined and monitored to curb a potential spread of the deadly virus.
On Wednesday, the Health Minister disclosed that as at Wednesday, April Fool’s Day, 195 cases of Covid-19 had been recorded in the country. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, at a presser in Accra, added that the death toll has hit five.
“Seven more Covid-19 patients have been discharged. This brings the total number to 38,” the sector Minister said.
By Inusa Musah / www.thechronicle.com.gh
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