Partial lockdown must be extended to check spread of coronavirus – Govt Statistician

The Government Statistician has expressed the need for an extension of the partial lockdown (movement of people) to further check the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Professor Samuel Kobina Annim told the Ghanaian Times in an interview yesterday that the partial lockdown had reduced movement of people across regions by 40 per cent and within Greater Accra by 50

per cent as shown by the Call Detail Records (CDR) studies carried out.

The mobility analysis studies were carried out by the Ghana Statistical Service in conjunction with Vodafone and Flowminder Foundation to support the government in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“While this is contributing to slow down the infection, there is the need for further analysis to predict the infection rate in the country in the light of the lockdown,” Prof. Annim added.