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Ghana: President Shows Exemplary Leadership in COVID-19 Fight
›By Audrey Donkor // Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo with a delegation at the Jubilee House in Accra, Ghana. Photo courtesy of the Government of South Africa via Flickr Commons.
President Nana Akufo-Addo surprised many Ghanaians when he announced on April 19 an end to the three-week partial lockdown imposed on the cities of Accra and Kumasi. At the time of his televised evening address—his seventh since the first two cases of COVID-19 were registered in Ghana on March 12—1,042 cases had been confirmed, with nine deaths from the disease. Hence the panic and concern that cases would skyrocket with a return to full business activity the next day, April 20. Schools were to remain shuttered, while the ban on public gatherings remained in effect.
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