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President Akufo-Addo has said that people who continue to breach Covid-19 security protocols will be dealt with by law.
He was concerned that the decline in the case count in the country had led to a lack of strict compliance with security protocols. However, he claimed that law enforcement agencies had been empowered to ensure that people caught in violation of these laws were treated accordingly.
“Let me remind those of us who want to continue to ignore these protocols, that there are severe penalties in our laws for those people, who will want to endanger the rest of the population with their actions and negligence.
“Law enforcement agencies, when necessary, will apply these measures without fear or favor, without ill will or malice, and without recourse to a person’s ethnicity, gender or religion.
In his sixteenth speech on measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, he implied that he has been reliably informed that in some regions of the country where there are no active cases, some neighbors are abandoning, altogether, protocols, such as the use of of masks, established to fight the virus.
He added that the high rate of compliance with the use of masks by people surveyed by the Ghana Health Service in some selected areas of Accra, which he referred to in his 15th speech, according to a new survey by the same Service , has decreased alarmingly.
As of August 31, 2020, active cases in the country stood at 1,152.
However, the president said that citizens should observe measures to completely remove the virus from the system. He emphasized the fact that “improving hygiene protocols, wearing masks and social distancing must now be central features of our lives and remain so for some time until we see the elimination of the virus from our country.”
He advised the people of Ghana not to let their guard down due to the significant decrease in the number of cases.
“We have to maintain, in a constant state of readiness, the improved infrastructure and expertise that we have built during the virus period to deal with it,” he said.
