Reports from the The Minister of Foreign Affairs & Regional Integration, office suggest that about some
400 Ghanaians stranded abroad due to Covid-19 are expected to return home.
Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, address the media with this news on Tuesday, June 16,2020.
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In the press she added that the Ghanaians are expected to arrive on 17th & 21st of June 2020 respectively.
195 persons are also expected on 19th June from Lebanon & the rest from Washington DC, China and New York by the end of the month.
According to her, the evacuation of stranded Ghanaians abroad has been categorized into four (4) groups namely, Ability-to-Pay,
which comprises private individuals, business/corporate–sponsored employees, privately–sponsored
students on exchange programmes, Government–sponsored students who are yet to complete their
courses but who without any compelling reasons insist on returning home.
She said the category also covers foreign–sponsored evacuations which only require the government to
provide travel documents and guarantee safe passage, as well as Ghana residence permit holders,
including diplomats and their dependents.
The second category she said is the government funded evacuation which comprises government
officials who travelled on official business, government–sponsored students who have completed their
courses of study, as well as government–sponsored students who are yet to complete their courses but
who are compelled to leave their places of residence.
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The third category is the distressed and destitute comprising Ghanaians who had travelled to various
countries before the advent of the pandemic but whose circumstances have been worsened due to the
crisis and consequent travel bans and other restrictions imposed by different countries around the
world.
The fourth group is the deportees; Ghanaians who have been scheduled for removal from various countries.
