Techiman MCE Urges Media To Intensify COVID-19 Public Education
The Chief Executive of Techiman Municipality, Hon. John Kofi Donyina, has urged the media fraternity to intensify its public education on the COVID-19 which was vigorously done on the onset of the pandemic’s outbreak .
According to him, the disease is still active in the system and that the media should intensify its public education to reduce the spread..
“They should not depart from their earlier commitment and continue to support government’s holistic efforts to totally kick out the disease from the system so life can return to full normalcy.”
Speaking on Election 2020 on Wontumi Radio and TV in Kumasi on Wednesday, Hon. Donyina insisted that until the World Health Organization (WHO) announces that the pandemic is out of the system, Ghana and the world at large cannot relent in their efforts to embrace all the public education modules to combat the disease.
“We should continue to maintain the protocols especially with respect to the wearing of nose masks and thorough hand washing as well as the social distancing restrictions.” He said.
The MCE disclosed that, since Techiman prides itself as the most vibrant cosmopolitan commercial city in the country after Kumasi, it witnesses a heavy influx of people from all corners of the country and beyond on daily basis which made the old town vulnerable in containing the spread of the disease.
“Its sprawling size and heavy population density and daily arrivals of visitors especially, traders became the key factors that made the Municipality to record several cases of the novel Coronavirus in the early days of its outbreak leading to some casualties.” He lamented.
Hon Donyina told Oheneba Nana Asiedu, host of the flagship programme that, the Assembly as well as the Directorate of Health, DISEC , Nananom and other stake holders were proactive in mapping out strategies to deal with the early signs of the COVID-19 which somehow controlled the spread of the disease.
Ghana’s confirmed COVID-19 cases currently stand at 44,460; active cases 1,063; discharge 43,121 and 276 deaths.
