COVID-19: Ghana Extends Lockdown For An Additional One Week

 

Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana has announced an additional one-week extension to the lockdown in the country’s two main regions.

 

According to him, it is to help contain the spread of Coronavirus.

 

Nana Akufo-Addo, in a late broadcast on Thursday, said the two-week restriction on movement around the capital Accra and in the Kumasi area would be prolonged from Monday, April 13.

 

 

Akufo-Addo also promised that the government would absorb the whole of the electricity bills of the poorest citizens and 50% for other residents and businesses for three months to ease the pain.

 

Ghana has so far registered 378 COVID-19 cases. Six deaths have so far been recorded.