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705 The Ghana Heath Service (GHS) says it has identified a wide community spread of the mutated United Kingdom (UK) variant of the COVID-19 that can take over the traditional one if the public continues to defy the safety protocols. It said that was a cause for worry because the UK variant had a higher and faster rate of spread, results in severer sickness, with high numbers of people exposed to it falling sick, unlike the traditional form of the virus. National briefing Addressing the media at theMinister's Briefing, a national platform for providing updates on the national COVID-19 situatio...

We’re engaging MMDAs to enforce bye-laws to help fight COVID-19 – Police LISTEN JAN 31, 2021 The Police Service says it is engaging Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) across the country to help enforce by-laws on the wearing of nose mask. The adherence to the preventive protocols has gone down drastically per statistics by the Ghana Health Service. According to the GHS, non-adherence to the protocols has contributed significantly to the rise in active cases in the country. Ghana's current active case count stands at 4,665 cases per the latest update from the Gha...

  The Ghana Police Service has begun an exercise to randomly stop vehicles carrying two or more people to check if occupants on board are in face masks. The exercise, which began yesterday, is a directive from the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and is part of moves the police are undertaking to enforce the mandatory wearing of face masks.  Addressing the minister's press briefing to give an update on COVID-19 in Accra yesterday, the Police Director of Public Affairs, Supt. Sheila Kessie Abayie-Buckman said the exercise had already begun in some of the regions and was being scaled up to c...

Police to start random vehicle checks to enforce face mask directive LISTEN 1 The Police will start random checks of vehicles with multiple persons to ensure compliance with laws on wearing face masks. At a press briefing on Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs, Supt. Sheila Abayie-Buckman said this was the next stage of police enforcement of the coronavirus safety protocols. “For as long as we see two or more people in the vehicles, any police officer in uniform can stop you, look at whether you are wearing your mask properly. If not, you will be brought down,” she stated. The ...

  A total of 282 people, have been arrested by the Police, in two days for not wearing nose masks towards containing the spread of COVID-19. The Accra Regional Police Command recorded 97, followed by Ministries, 66, Baatsona, 50, Teshie, 30, Madina, 23 and Tesano, 16. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, Head of the Public Affairs Unit, Accra Regional Police Command, told the Ghana News Agency. She explained that the exercise was in line with the implementation of the Executive Instrument passed by the President to ensure members of the public were protected from contracting CO...