Dr. Joseph Humphrey Bonney, Research Fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, has intimated that the nation should reinforce the COVID-19 protocols.
Dr. Bonney cautioned that if the country does not go back to strict enforcement of the COVID-19 protocols, the situation will overburden the country.
According to the Research Fellow, although the President of Ghana has technocrats and advisors who are competent to offer cogent advice to him, from his professional view, he thinks Ghana should go back to the protocols and it should be strictly adhered to.
Dr. Joseph Bonney stated that although relatively, COVID-19 cases in Ghana are on the low, there is the need for government to take steps to ensure that the situation does not get worse, hence the need to go back to the protocols.
“Let’s go back to those protocols that we were holding on to so dearly when the cases were going up and we were able to bring it down by observing the protocols. We should aggressively go back to what we were doing.”
Dr. Joseph Humphrey Bonney
The Health Expert stated that some countries are going on lockdown and their cases are even rising, however people in Ghana, after relaxing the protocols, do not care about wearing of the nose mask, especially children. He posited that it is part of the reason why the nation is recording cases among children 0 to 15 years now.
There is data that gives cause to vaccinate children
Dr. Joseph Bonney further indicated that there is enough data that gives the nation a cause to vaccinate children, because the more Ghana broadens the coverage of the vaccination, the more it can attain herd immunity. “There is enough proof that the vaccine preserves lives no matter the severity of COVID-19.”
The Noguchi Researcher posited that COVID-19 has not gone yet for Ghanaians to be careless with the protocols and to not even take the vaccine.
“I know the Ghana Health Service (GHS) is doing well with the campaign to get people to take the vaccine but I don’t know why they are not going for the vaccine. You know COVID-19 starts with small numbers and then it goes up, so we have to be more careful and don’t have to wait for it to get there before we go back to the protocols that worked for us.”
Dr. Joseph Humphrey Bonney
Ghana’s COVID-19 statistics currently stands at: Confirmed Cases 163,191, Deaths 1,445, Active Cases 1,026 and New Cases 120. According to the Ghana Health Service through the Director-General, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, currently, of the Accra cases, about 18.1% on average are among children aged between 0-15, obviously these are unvaccinated.
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