The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has warned that the COVID-19 situation in the country is alarming and dire at this particular moment with the risk of a potential exponential rise in the number of cases.
According to the GMA, this development calls for concern by all well-meaning Ghanaians and organisations because the rise in Coronavirus cases can be attributed to “the total disregard for, and the lack of enforcement of all relevant COVID-19 preventive protocols throughout the country” and the “importation of cases from other countries via travellers arriving at the point(s) of entry”.
The GMA in a statement on January 14, 2021, noted that in the last couple of weeks just before, during and after the Christmas and New Year festivities, the COVID-19 case count in the country has sharply increased.
“The various major health facilities [especially in the Accra Metropolis] involved in the management of moderate, severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients are overstretched,” the statement noted.
Ghana’s active COVID-19 cases which remained less than 800 before the Christmas festivities have shot up to 1,420 as of 11th January.
This development has been a major concern for many pundits who believe there is a second wave of the outbreak which is not receiving as much national attention as the first.