Ghana’s Covid-19 Cases to Rapidly Increase Due to Lockdown Lifting – Global Health Expert
According to the Global Health Expert, Ghana does not have the kind of data required to be able to measure an infection rate, based on to lift the partial lockdown.
Jonas Danquah 
A Global Health Expert has predicted a spike in Ghana’s covid-19 cases after the government lifted the partial lockdown which was put in place to curtail the spread of the disease.
According to Dr John Amuasi, who is a lecturer at the Global Health Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), President Akufo-Addo’s erred in the decision taken, because the Ghana does not have the kind of data required to be able to measure an infection rate.
Speaking in an interview on Accra based Joy FM, Dr Amuasi, said “there surely, based on the decision we have taken, will be more cases of coronavirus and coronavirus is going to spread faster.
“What I cannot determine is what the impact of that spreading or increase in infection will be,” he added.
President Akufo-Addo in his 7th address to the nation since the outbreak of the coronavirus, announced the lifting of a partial lockdown that affected Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Kumasi.
But the announcement has been met with mixed reactions. While some are happy, others have wondered why the lockdown has been lifted, especially when the coronavirus cases have increased to 1042, as of Sunday, April 19, 2020.
Dr Amuasi is with the second group of people.
He said based on data and a clear knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease, the decision which he believes was not taken from a public health perspective, would rather lead to an increase in cases.
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He stressed the need for the country to prepare for more cases.
“I am not saying we should prepare for more deaths and destruction. I am not saying it is going to collapse our economy although it has the potential to do it but, if the argument is that we are following the number and we are good to go and the infections won’t go up, I’ll strongly contest that.
“…The medicine must not be worse than the disease itself and it is hard for me to tell what the ultimate disease will be, if we continue in a lockdown situation but what I want to make sure is very clear is that we’ve got to prepare for more cases of coronavirus…there will be more cases based on this decision.”
