Pay attention to your health – Akufo-Addo tells Ghanaians

Amid the exponential increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country, President Akufo-Addo is encouraging Ghanaians to pay critical attention to their health.

The president urged all and sundry to seek immediate medical attention if they start to experience certain health conditions, including cold, high temperature, as well as sore throat.

The president in his 11th televised address to the nation noted, there is nothing shameful to testing positive. "We do not have to lose our sense of community because of this pandemic."

Akufo-Addo said, "When you begin to experience symptoms such as fever, persistent cough, bodily pains, loss of taste and smell, and difficulty in breathing, seek immediate medical attention at the nearest health facility."

He condemned those who keep shunning people who have recovered from COVID-19 because, as he explained, their actions undermine the country's effort to fight COVID-19.

The president noted, "Government, through the Ghana Health Service, continues to monitor, on a daily basis, the spread of the virus, and has benchmarks of health outcomes, which define the mitigation measures that must be pursued to curb the spread of the disease, and enable us to reassess the easing of restrictions."

He reminded residents of the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions, where the majority of cases have been recorded, and in the Western and Central Regions, where there are increasing infections, "to continue to adhere strictly to the social distancing and enhanced hygiene protocols announced’.

“Our survival is in our own hands,” Akufo-Addo said.