GMA commends Nana Addo over new COVID-19 restrictions

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has lauded President Akufo-Addo for considering their concerns in issuing new directives to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country.

According to the Association, the new instructions spelt out by the President will be pivotal in slowing the tide in COVID-19 cases in the country.

In his 23rd address on the coronavirus yesterday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo reimposed the ban on social gatherings.

The president indicated that burials can be held with not more than twenty-five attendees.

“Fellow Ghanaians, until further notice funerals, weddings, concerts, theatrical performances, and parties are banned. Private burials with no more than twenty-five [people] can take place, with [the] enforcement of the social distancing, hygiene and mask-wearing”, he said.

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In an interview on Accra based Joy News, Dr Justice Yankson, the General Secretary of the GMA said the president captured the concerns of the association its address.

He noted that the recommendations by the GMA were considered in the decision by the government.

He also appealed to the public to adhere to the safety protocols to prevent the possibility of another lockdown.

"'The update really put the picture the way it is at the moment and the sort of things we needed to do. The president’s latest update has actually alluded to a lot of them. We have all been talking about the need to ban public gathering and I think the first step has been taken.

There are still some exemptions but it is subject to the way we conduct ourselves and the way the disease also treats us. Let’s mask up and do the social distancing and avoid the things the president has spoken about then we can slow down the current trend of [the] surge,” he noted as quoted by pulsegh.