Government will bear cost of mandatory quarantine - Minister

The government of Ghana will bear the cost of all persons who will undergo the mandatory quarantine and test under the reviewed travel restrictions to stop the further importation of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) into the country, Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has announced.

The Minister gave the hint speaking at a sensitisation forum for editors and senior media managers in Accra yesterday.

Over the weekend, some passengers that landed in Ghana were taken into a 14-day quarantine by the Ghana Armed Forces.

President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the closure of all the country’s borders — land, sea and air — to human traffic for the next two weeks.

The directive took effect from Sunday midnight, March 22, 2020.

Goods are however exempted from the directive.