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The executive director of the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors, Senyo Hosi, has said that President Rawlings’ funeral rites will be a potential spreader of Covid-19.
Former President Jerry John Rawlings, who passed away on Thursday, November 12, 2020, will be buried on Wednesday, January 27.
For this, a 4-day event was scheduled in various locations. Today there will be a mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, after which a vigil will be held in the Air Force Officers’ Dining Room.
From Monday, January 25 to Tuesday, January 26, his body will be deposited at the Accra International Conference Center, where state officials, foreign dignitaries and the general public will have the opportunity to pay their last respects.
In light of the growing number of active Covid-19 cases in the country and considering the large number expected at the funeral, Hosi is concerned that the activities lined up for the late president’s funeral should have been conducted virtually.
“In the midst of all that is obvious about our Covid-19 situation, I humbly request that the State review the structure of President Rawlings’ funeral. You’re certainly heading to a Covid-19 super spreader event.
We can make this four-day session virtual like a television production with a very restricted physical attendance of no more than 100 or 25 attendees. “
As of January 19, Ghana’s Covid-19 cases stood at 2,799 with 361 deaths in contrast to 991 active cases just a month ago in December 2020.
The Managing Trustee of the Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund, Mr. Hosi, is concerned about this sharp increase in active cases and does not believe that the late “Rawlings will be glad that people become infected or lose their lives to cause of Covid-19 courtesy of his funeral. “
According to the CEO, “A proper funeral is not necessarily a large, widely publicized Covid-19 event!”
He called for the right thing to be done and also asked the president, Nana Akufo-Addo, to use this “as an opportunity to set the example that Ghanaians need to follow.”
