President Akufo Addo has announced a ban on the operation of night clubs across the country in the wake of the Coronavirus(COVID-19) outbreak.
He made the announcement on Thursday, March 19, 2017, when he held a breakfast prayer meeting with the Clergy at the Jubilee House to pray against the deadly disease.
“Yes, we are screening all persons at out points of entries with ineligible persons being refused entry. Yes, we have designated quarantined isolation centres for holding suspected cases. Yes, we have suspended all public gatherings including those at nightclubs, Yes, we’ve closed down all schools until further notice. Yes, we have urged all Ghanaians to observe prescribed social distancing and best hygiene protocols which luckily they are doing,” President Akufo Addo said.
The President came under huge backlash from a section of the public after he in his announcement on Sunday evening declared a ban for the next four weeks on the holding of church and mosque services, but allowed night clubs, shopping malls, and restaurants to be opened.
The Ghana Charismatic Bishops Conference for instance in reaction to the President’s directive in a statement said: “Such entities have been noted in other countries experience, France being a good example, where the pandemic has not been controlled as they have remained opened.”
“To only ask for the closure of churches and places of worship is a rather biased view of the society and does not improve much the odds of getting the disease under control.”
