Kumasi Central Market shut down hours after the lockdown was lifted due to defying of social distancing order
Authorities in the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly in charge of the Kumasi Central Market popularly known as Kejetia Market, have closed down the market for fear of reading of COVID-19. This action comes a few hours after the president announced the lifting of the Coronavirus-induced lockdown on Accra and Kumasi. According to reports, there were so…
Authorities in the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly in charge of the Kumasi Central Market popularly known as Kejetia Market, have closed down the market for fear of reading of COVID-19.
This action comes a few hours after the president announced the lifting of the Coronavirus-induced lockdown on Accra and Kumasi.
According to reports, there were so many people in the market and they did not observe the wearing of face masks, social distancing protocols, and refusal to put on gloves.
President Akufo-Addo in his seventh address to the nation last night lifted the lockdown on Accra and Kumasi by saying:
“In view of our ability to undertake aggressive contact tracing of infected persons, the enhancement of our capacity to test, the expansion in the numbers of our treatment and isolation centers, our better understanding of the dynamism of the virus, the ramping up of our domestic capacity to produce our own personal protective equipment, sanitizers, and medicines, the modest successes chalked at containing the spread of the virus in Accra and Kumasi, and the severe impact on the poor and vulnerable, I have taken the decision to lift the three-week-old restriction on movements in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area and its contiguous districts, with effect from 1 am on Monday, 20th April.
“In effect, tomorrow will see the partial lockdown in Accra and Kumasi being lifted.”