Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper is advocating for more education on the coronavirus pandemic, especially in the rural areas.
Contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM's morning show ‘Kokrokoo’, Kwesi Pratt said: “We are in a national emergency” and if this is not addressed properly, "it can affect the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections" in December.
Listen to him in the video below:
Background
Ghana confirmed two cases of the Coronavirus on Thursday, 12th March 2020.
One of the Coronavirus cases confirmed by the country's health authorities is said to be a Ghanaian, Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has revealed.
According to the Minister, of the two confirmed coronavirus cases, one is a Ghanaian who returned from Turkey, while the other is a Norwegian.
In an interview with Nana Yaw Kesseh, sit-in host of Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', he disclosed they are both males who arrived at the Kotoka International Airport some days back, adding that the health authorities are now "conducting contact tracing".
"They have been in Accra for at least one-week …we are still conducting contact tracing. We have their data and we’ve contacted them already. There should be no panic because over 90 percent of infected people recover…what we have to do is to control the potential spread," he added.
Both patients are currently under isolation and are said to be in a stable condition.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/GHANA
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The should stopped the EC too from the new registration of new voters ID too
A global issue being localised; how myopic some people can be.
This guy Kwesi Pratt is paid for making statements that go against the 2020 -elections, be it against the credibility of the EC or whatever anti-EC. You can deduce from here that, even if the topic election is not primarily in the discussion, Kwesi tries hard to play the populistic kind of politics; ostensibly being proactive but his main goal is to create fears and panic in the coming elections. Because the NDC has absolutely no chance to win that election. The Corona pandemic poses a big challenge for the whole world likewise the USA which also has elections this year. It has only been seen as an election topic in terms of the leadership skills, pragmatism the President or the contestant possesses to tackling the problem. On this note, I would say the present Administration under the leadership of Nana Akufo-Addo is not doing badly at all
no n sense,he talks like kerosene in his head
We are thinking of finding a vaccine for the virus and you are talking about elections.huh
All he is interested in is the election and how it will affect the economy and other sectors
Of all the deaths and disruptions that are being caused by this virus, it is 2020 elections that Kwesi Pratt is thinking of? What kind of person is this? Pray that you don't get infected, else we will see whether you will even have the mouth to talk, let alone be worried about elections.
This is how foo l ish men talk
a 2 year old even knows this. The whole world not just Ghana
Akwasi you are not making sense at all. What has this got to do with the upcoming election. Is Ghana the only country that has been affected by this virus, and in what basis can this affect an election..