Fellow Ghanaians, good evening
I wish all of you a happy and prosperous New Year. We have to be thankful to Almighty God for seeing us through 2020, undoubtedly one of the most eventful years in the history of mankind.
I am sure that many, at the stroke of midnight on 31st December, were happy to see the back of 2020, the global pandemic of COVID-19 being the main reason.
Unfortunately, COVID-19is still with us, and that is why I have come into your homes for the twenty-first (21st) time to provide you with further updates on the decisions taken by Government to try and bring our lives safely back to normal and achieve our ultimate goal of zero active cases.
Since the announcement, on Wednesday, 11th March 2020, of the first set of restrictions to help win the fight against the virus, several others have been imposed by Government to this end.
Measures including the temporary partial lockdown of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Tema, Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area and contiguous districts, the closure of our schools, the adherence to enhanced hygiene, social distancing and mask-wearing protocols, the ban on public gatherings, and the closure of our schools and our borders, imposed considerable difficulties on all of us.
A number of these restrictions have, since, been eased, and others are still in force. As at 1st January, the number of active cases in Ghana stands at eight hundred and seventy-nine (879) cases, with fifty-three thousand, and five (54,005) recoveries, eighteen (18) severely ill but no critical cases.