President Akufo-Addo will later today, Friday, April 3, meet the leadership of all registered and recognized political parties in Ghana to deliberate on the best measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in Ghana.
Today’s meeting with the leadership of political parties in Ghana will, afford the President an opportunity to also explain some critical decisions taken by the government to stem the spread.
In the President’s last address on Friday, March 27, 2020, when he announced the partial lockdown of parts of Accra and Kumasi, he also called for a collectivized approach as Ghana finds a lasting solution in these hard times warning against the ‘politicking and display of partisanship’ in the country’s COVID-19 fight hence the need for today’s meeting with Political parties in Ghana.
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“Fellow Ghanaians, I am urging all of you to bear with these additional measures. They are being done in the interest of all of us. They are, hopefully, only for a short while. These additional measures, together with those earlier announced, are what will help us defeat the virus. And, we must be united in our determination and efforts to overcome this challenge. This, certainly, is not the time for politicking or the display of partisanship. The virus does not care which party you belong to, neither is it, as we have seen, a respecter of persons. The enemy is the virus and not each other”, he admonished.
Meanwhile, Ghana as of yesterday had its total confirmed case count of COVID-19 standing at 204. The number includes 3 recoveries, 5 deaths and a good number of people reported to be responding well to treatment.
