COVID-19: Akufo-Addo announces mandatory quarantine of travellers entering Ghana

Government is to begin a mandatory quarantine of all travellers arriving in Ghana from tonight, March 21, 2020, regardless of nationality.

“Everyone who comes into the country before Sunday will be mandatorily quarantined and tested for the virus,” President Nana Akufo-Addo disclosed in an address to the nation on Saturday evening.

Following restrictions from recent travel protocols, the only admissible travellers into Ghana were Ghanaians and foreign nationals with residence permits in Ghana.

These persons were to engage in a mandatory self-quarantine for 14 days.

The President also announced the closure of the country’s border effective midnight on Sunday.

“All our borders; by land, sea and air, will be closed to human traffic for the next two weeks beginning midnight on Sunday,” he added in the address.

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