Coronavirus: Group Urges EC to Shelve New Register Plans over Outbreak
Group advises EC to suspend its plan until the Covid-19 outbreak is dealt with
Jonas Danquah 
Pressure group, Right Alliance Africa, has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to suspend its plans to compile a new biometric voters’ register on April 18 in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in Ghana.
According to the group, the EC should as a precautionary measure, suspend its decision until government brings the outbreak under control.
“We are…calling on the EC to take precaution to suspend the plans to conduct the new Biometric Voters Register until the government brings the COVID-19 under control and prevention,” the group said in a statement.
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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in an earlier news briefing on Sunday, March 15, disclosed that, the country has recorded four more confirmed Covid-19 cases.
The four new cases, brings the total of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Ghana to six.
Latest directives from the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, to deal with the spread of the disease ban all public gatherings for four weeks.
Right Alliance Africa argues that a decision by EC to suspend the exercise will be in line with this directive to deal with the spread of the virus.
Below is their full statement:
