Ghana Police Vow To Be More Tough In The Third Week Of Lockdown ( VIDEO)

Ghana Police service force have warn ghanaians in the affected areas of lockdown to adhere to the rules and regulations given as they vow...

Ghana Police service force have warn ghanaians in the affected areas of lockdown to adhere to the rules and regulations given as they vow to be very tough from Monday April 13, 2020. 

This operation is to restrict movements in the affected areas of Ghana, where more cases of this viral disease have been recorded. 

On Sunday, April 12, 2020, Director-General of Tactical Operations at the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Boadu Peprah, stated that, they look forward to ghanaians obeying the instructions on movements and mass gathering restrictions in the country with ease.  

“From tomorrow [Monday] going, we are going to be tough on them,” he said.

The Operation COVID Safety was enforced on March 30 as a lockdown directive by the President of Ghana, in order to help control the fast spreading of COVID-19 in the country.

The task force involves a combined team of the police, the Armed Forces and other security agencies.

In an interview, DCOP Peprah said:

“Now we have entered the third week we expect everybody to stay at home. If they refuse to stay at home, now we are going to arrest people that we see loitering. We expect everybody to respect the Presidential order.

“Stay at home and protect yourself. We don’t want people to be loitering. Trotros busing people to Accra Central; we are not going to allow that.”

There have been an extension by the President Nana Akufo-Addo  to the  initial 14-day restriction on movements in parts of the Greater Accra Region and Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region.

According to the President, although the efforts to contain the spread of the virus have been successful, the country was not yet out of the woods.

However, the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ghana have  a hits total of 566 after 156 new cases recorded. 

On its Covid-19 website, the Service said a number of measures introduced to control and prevent further spread of the disease has resulted in the sudden increase in cases.

“As of April 11, a total of 37,954 persons have been tested with 566 being positive for COVID-19. The breakdown of the 566 positive cases are as follows: four have been treated, discharged and tested negative, 552 cases have been categorised as mild disease on treatment, two moderate to severe cases, none currently on ventilators and eight have died.

“Of the 566 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 292 were reported from the routine surveillance, 159 from enhanced surveillance activities and 115 from travellers under mandatory quarantine in both Accra and Tamale.”

Greater Accra remains the region with highest number of cases with 452 cases. 

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