41 Ghanaian Evacuees from USA Arrive in the Country

Forty-one Ghanaians who were in Washington DC, USA, have arrived in Ghana.

Most of them were students who went on an exchange program sponsored by the State Department of the United States of America.

They arrived aboard a South African Airways flight at 9.20 am on Saturday, June 6, at the Kotoko International Airport.

This comes a day after the government announced that it has arranged chartered flights to bring back Ghanaians home based on a schedule drawn up by the Foreign Affairs Ministry even though most countries have closed borders due to COVID-19.

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The evacuees are lodging at a hotel in Accra and they are to observe the two-weeks mandatory quarantine period.

Two more contingents from Burkina Faso and Turks and Caicos are expected to arrive later in the day.

The arrival of these individuals comes as the first contingent from the second phase of the government’s evacuation programme for stranded Ghanaians due to COVID-19 as was announced yesterday [Friday] by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway.

SOURCE: Citinewsroom