At least 856 Ghanaians stranded in different parts of the world have returned home amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Foreign Ministry has disclosed.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, told the media on Tuesday more Ghanaians are expected back home as restrictions around the world begin to ease.
“So far 856 Ghanaians have been brought home,” the minister said.
About the high cost of quarantine in Ghana, she said: “The cost is high because a lot of the hotels are not willing for their places to be used as quarantines, even if a small hotel agrees, the hotels are small, so you will have a hotel with five or four rooms so logistics will be a problem, security services will have to be put at these quarantines centres and that’s also a problem.
“So we are always looking for larger hotels to make it easier for us…we are trying to find ways of cutting down hotel cost, it’s substantial 600 a day for people who are stranded and may have used up all their monies.”
COVID-19 STATUS
Four more persons have succumbed to the deadly COVID-19, increasing the death toll in Ghana to 58, the Ghana Health Service has announced on Tuesday.
About 229 news cases have been recorded as at June 15, 2020 bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 12, 193, according to Dr. Patrick Aboagye-Kumah, the boss of the GHS at a press conference.
Of the new cases, 70 were from the Ashanti region followed by the Central region with 42 cases and then 34 cases in the Savanna region.
Out of the total figures, 4,326 patients have recovered and discharged leaving the active cases at 7,813.
In his address on Sunday, President Akufo-Addo warned Ghanaians that the “wearing of facemask is now mandatory.”
“With the doctors and scientists telling us that the virus is transmitted from human contact, through talking, singing, coughing and sneezing, which results in sending droplets of the virus from one person to another, residents of these four regions, and, indeed, all Ghanaians, must remember that the wearing of masks is now mandatory. Leaving our homes without a face mask or face covering on is an offence. The Police have been instructed to enforce this directive, which is the subject of an Executive Instrument.”
Source: Daily Mail GH
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