Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia will this morning have Muslims clerics, Imams and Zongo Leaders join him at the Jubilee House to seek Allah’s intervention following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The meeting with the Muslim leaders comes a day after a similar one held between President Nana Akufo-Addo and Christian Leaders in Ghana.
Ghana has so far recorded 11 cases of COVID-19 but no death.
The figure according to health experts may go up in the coming days.
Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said predictions by health experts are that the number of cases may shot up within the next two weeks before a likely decline of the spread of the disease.
Addressing the press on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah assured that the authorities have expressed readiness for any impending case and therefore called on Ghanaians to be calm and take precautionary measures seriously.
“The health experts tell us that the next two weeks are critical in determining whether or not we will get significant community spread. They tell us that, the general theory of pandemic management is that, often the numbers are likely to go up a bit before the situation gets better. Therefore, they are bracing for the possibility of some limited recordings of more cases in the medium term but they continue to assure us that, the systems they are putting together are such that we are able to control it and hold this virus in check,” he said.
Nine out of the 11 cases so far recorded are Ghanaians. The other two includes a Norwegian and a Lebanese.
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