Sunyani Covid-19 Taskforce arrests 5 People for flouting protocols

The Sunyani Municipal Covid-19 Taskforce after its revival says it has arrested five recalcitrant persons who refused to wear nose masks as well as observing the protocols while walking in town.

This was revealed to the media by the Leader of the task force who is also a Member of the Municipal Security Committee and Spokesperson for the Sunyani Central Prison, ASP Johann Nii Nartey.

According to him, five persons were arrested after the team on their routine patrols found them in the central business district without wearing nose masks and also resisted doing so when a member of the task force ordered them.

ASP Johann Nii Nartey stated that one of the persons arrested who is a student was cheeky to one of the team’s members for asking about his nose mask.

He urged the Sunyani residents to wear their masks to evade being arrested and possibly paying fines.

He also explained the composition of the new taskforce which excludes the military and the new strategy adopted in the enforcement of the protocols.

Ghana however received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines through an UN-backed global vaccine-sharing scheme as part of efforts to enable equitable access to the jabs by low and middle-income countries.

The consignment, which arrived at the Kotoka International Airport, consisted of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines, which are expected to be administered first to frontline health workers and high-risk persons and people over 60 years, to slow the progression of the disease.

The vaccines were produced by the Serum Institute of India.

President Akufo-Addo will receive the first dose of the 600,000 Covid-19 vaccines which arrived in the country on Wednesday.

Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, the Presidential Advisor on Health who disclosed this said the move “is to assure Ghanaians that the vaccines are safe.”

He added that “other reactions like headache, dizziness, or pains are all usual with every vaccination.”

With Ghana recording more than 80,000 cases and over 580 deaths on account of the virus, Dr. Nsiah-Asare noted that it would be in the interest of the country, for Ghanaians to avail themselves to be vaccinated when that opportunity came.