Nana Addo’s lockdown is a Total flop Nd it has “backfired” – NDC claims

One strong opposition party by name National Democratic Congress (NDC) has voice their sentiments disclosing to their fact that the partial lockdown of Accra, Kumasi, Tema and Kasoa is a total flop. “big time. And on their reasons.

National Democratic Congress has attributed the 48-hour period prior to the lockdown after it was announced on Friday, March 27, to the flop

Strong member of the NDC’s COVID-19 team, Dr Grace Ayensu Dankwa, categorically stated on Accra-based radio station, Citi FM, which was monitored by Aacehypez.net Nd speaking about the lockdown she said it should have been immediate and that the delay too much about it and this have caused a whole lot people infected with the disease to travel out of the epicentres. She said.

She continue to say “It was actually a lockdown of the people in the geographical area. So, in other words, it was more like we wanted to quarantine all the people in Accra. So you make an announcement two days, three days that you are going to lockdown Accra on Monday and what happened was more of what we assumed –the human beings that we were sort of concerned about, most of them left the area to other regions in the country most especially this rural areas …The way this lockdown happened we think it has clearly backfired in the sense that, the lockdown was not a geographical lockdown,” she argued.

In Africa, Ghana now joined South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Mali, among others, to restrict the movement of citizens in a bid to curb the spread of the virus through the precautious of
Social distancing, washing of hands and sanitizing hands and many more due to millions infected over a worldwide, Very deadly virus.

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President Nana Akufo-Addo imposed a partial lockdown on Accra, Tema, and Kumasi effective Monday, March 30, 2020, when he addressed the nation on Friday, March 27, 2020.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) COVID-19 team had on Thursday, April 2, 2020, asked the government to as a matter of urgency, conduct a nationwide mass testing to curb the further spread of the novel coronavirus in Ghana.

“The NDC has called for mass testing because we don’t feel that currently, the contact tracing is actually working. We went from vertical cases to the horizontal cases with people who didn’t have any travel history testing positive and when that happened we (NDC) knew the case numbers will go up. Then, the numbers went up in Accra and Kumasi and before that, we (NDC) had already called for the lockdown,” Dr. Ayensu Dankwa noted.

Ghana’s confirmed COVID-19 cases

When President Akufo-Addo announced the lockdown a week ago, the COVID-19 cases in Ghana were 137. But the figure as of April 2, 2020 had risen to 204.

Accra has the highest numbers with over 180 cases.

Five deaths have so far been recorded with three recoveries.

Source: Aacehypez.net