The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished Ghanaians to be cautious in the Christmas season amid the COVID-19 fears.
According to him, there will be an influx of visitors during the festivities accompanied with charged activities, thus Ghanaians should be wary of the actions they undertake to avoid hikes in cases of the infectious disease during the period.
President Akufo-Addo alluded to the 2020 Christmas festivities which he admitted caused a spike in Ghana’s coronavirus cases.
He said: “Let us choose to live and act responsibly throughout the Christmas festivities, and remember that our actions or inactions will either help to end the pandemic at a much faster rate or continue to spread the virus in the country.”
“We should be guided by what transpired last Christmas, where there was a sharp spike in the number of Covid infection cases and deaths in the immediate months of January and February 2021″ President Akufo-Addo urged when he was addressing the nation on the update of the global deadly disease on Wednesday, December 15, 2021.
He added: “We should avoid the repetition of such a scenario after this year’s Christmas celebration” by so doing he indicated adhering to the COVID-19 directives should be “part and parcel of our daily lives and routines.”
He therefore encouraged those who are yet to take the COVID-19 jabs to do so without any fear since the vaccines are safe.
“Let me state, as clearly as I can. The vaccines are safe. They will not harm you. The will protect you and your family” he stressed.
Government through the Ministry of Health is expecting 20 million people to be vaccinated by January, 2022 out of the 26 million vaccines expected at the end of 2021.
Meanwhile, as at Tuesday December 14 according to the President, the Ghana Health Service has taken delivery of 17,736,710 vaccine doses and an additional 8,529,090 doses by the end of the year.
He also disclosed that over 6 million out of 17.7 million vaccines have been administered.
Ghana’s total COVID-19 cases stood at 131,840, with 129,660 recovery cases as well as 1,253 death cases.
