The Minority in Parliament believes that Ghana is recording high numbers of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections because President Akufo-Addo failed to take actions early and instead decided to tour Europe.
According to the Minority, because President Akufo-Addo did not prioritise the measures against the spread of the virus, he decided not to close the country’s borders, hence exposing the country to the disease.
“We lost the opportunity to do all of these and many more because President Akufo-Addo did not prioritize. He was touring in Europe even though the alarm bells of the coming pandemic were ringing. Then, shortly upon his return we had the first two cases of the virus infection. One of them had actually been with the President during his happy travel to Europe”, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, the Minority Leader, said at a press conference in Parliament today [Thursday, May 7, 2020].
He said the sharp rise in the number of cases reported by authorities in the last two weeks is deeply worrying.He added that, “the attempt to downplay this fact is unacceptable. Ghanaians expect the professionals entrusted with responsibility for managing the crisis to be forthright and refrain from interpreting data that is not grounded in the science of the pandemic”, adding “And here, I refer to a recent statement by a member of the National Response Team that we have peaked in terms of the number of infected persons.”
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