General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu believes that Ghana would have recorded a higher rate of confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus, similar to what is happening in European countries if the National Democratic Congress (NDC) were to be in power.
He explained that the opposition NDC, under John Dramani Mahama, would have worsened the situation for the country because they shared the same belief as other European countries that went in for their citizens in China at the beginning of the pandemic.
#BringBackStudents
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, John Boadu asserted that the NDC strongly entreated the Akufo-Addo government at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, to evacuate Ghanaian students stranded in the Wuhan Province in China, and even went further to create a hashtag on social media.
“Those countries like Iran, UK, Italy, Spain and USA that reasoned like the NDC and brought their citizens back from China, have you seen their situation today? The number of COVID-19 cases would have skyrocketed and spiraled out of control just as its happening in those countries if NDC under Mahama was in power,” he asserted.
Proactive Gov't
Touching on contact tracing, John Boadu intimated that a lot of the advanced countries are now focusing on contact tracing strategy, placing Ghana ahead of them in terms of being proactive.
“As we speak now, the enhanced surveillance and contact tracing that Ghana rolled out about two weeks ago, is now being replicated in other foreign countries. In the UK, if you live with someone who has tested positive, you don’t have the right to go to the hospital to test whether you have the virus or not. They don’t have voluntary testing kits unless you are sick and hospitalised or you are showing symptoms of the virus before you will be tested. This is what is happening in the UK,” he indicated.
Current Case Count
The country's case count is now at 834, this includes 99 recoveries, 4 moderate to severe cases as well as 234, who are well and responding to treatment.
The mortality rate has however increased by one figure, bringing the total deaths to nine (9).
This was confirmed by the Ghana Health Service on its official COVID-19 update page on April 18th, 2020,
The GHS is supervising the completion of a backlog of laboratory samples which have been picked for testing as part of the COVID-19 testing exercise. This is after some 57,000 samples have already been successfully tested as of April 15th 2020.
In the first batch of this backlog, an additional 198 have been found to be positive. This will bring Ghana’s total case count to 834 at the moment. The general public is however advised that this does not represent new infections that are occurring. It represents results from tests of a backlog of samples.
The laboratories have been working day and night to test this large number of samples. Hopefully in the next few days, all the testing would be completed.
Total samples tested so far now stands at 60, 916 with 1.37 % testing positive.
Regions that have reported cases and breakdown are as follows: Greater Accra - 685, Ashanti - 59, Eastern - 51, Northern - 11, Volta - 9, Upper East - 8, Upper West - 8, Central - 1, Western - 1 and North East - 1.
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Gyae gyim*e no. Politicians and nkwase*s3m. Should we politicise everything? It is your mother and father who will die of coronavirus, Nansins
Check from Ghana embassy, how many Ghanaian students in China contracted the virus.Since Nana Coro and his APPOINTEES are inept and lack potency,they dreamt everyone is. If you evacuate your citizens from any epicentre centre,there must undergo compulsory quarantine and continuous testing for at least 2 weeks. I am not amazed by the so called ""know it all"" government. WHEN OTHER MEANINGFUL CITIZENS PROPOSED ALTERNATIVE SUGGESTIONS WHICH CAN HELP CURB THE SPREAD of the deadly "" NANA CORONA"", BECAUSE OF INEPT AND IMPOTENCY of Nana Coro and his government, they are very quick to DISCOOUNT any laudable IDEA. LOCKDOWN IS ONE STEP TO CURB, YOU NEEDED TO FOLLOW IT up with COMPULSORY AND CONTINUOUS TESTING. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE men , MEANS,CAPACITY AND ABILITY, LET US ALL CONTRIBUTE OUR WIDOW'S MIGHT. Everyone has come to the terms, with reality of inept of the Health and Deputy Ministers . So in the midst of combating Corona , Reshuffle must be carried to bring Afable and Hardworking Dr Oko Boye on Board. Corona has exposed Nana coro government of putting square pegs in round holes.MAHAMA AND NDC EARLIER SUGGESTED ELECTRICITY/ECG REBATE FOR THE LIFELINE customers. This noble idea WAS INITIALLY RUBBISHED. THE REALITY DAWNED AND they WENT TO FETCHED THE IDEA from a Dustbin . NDC AND AKANDOH MINTAH SUGGESTED earlier for COMPULSORY QUARANTINE OF PRESIDENT AND HIS DELEGATION AND OTHERS WHO WENT TO NORWAY, INCLUDING NORWAY AMBASSADOR TO GHANA.THE IDEA AS USUAL WAS DISCOUNTED. THE REALITY CAUGHT WITH the KNOW IT ALL NPP. MAHAMA IS PROPOSING A FREEZED ON RENT AND POSSIBLE EJECTION OF TENANTS BY LANDLORDS. STATE INTERVENTION IN FORM TAX WAIVER FORb LANDLORDS. GHANAIANS HAVE COME TO APPRECIATE VISIONARY MAHAMA INVESTMENT IN HEALTH FACILITIES, RIDGE HOSPITAL LEGON MEDICAL CENTRE,BANK OF GHANA HOSPITAL,DODOWA,ChIPS COMPOUND AND SO MANY UNCOMPLTED AND ABANDONED HEALTH POSTS BY VINDICTIVE GOVERNMENT. THE HEALTH OF A NATION IS ITS WEALTH. COME BACK VISIONARY MAHAMA(VM).OTHERS MAY CALL YOU JM BUT I THINK ITS UNDERSTATEMENT, IT SHOULD BE (VM) for Long and VISIONARY Mahama for short. I am told one billion IMF bail is in town.Really , ""You can do propaganda and concert with the mantra of GHANA BEYOND AID, covid 19 will actually expose u. Same telling us they weaned themselves from IMF, in last quarter of 2019, less than a quarter of a year, they WERE GALLOPING back to IMF WITHOUT ANY HOME GROWNED POLICY. Indeed Ghana Beyond Aid.
What is the basis for that assertion?
This npp guys drink too much apio and that is making them hallucinatory. What criterion is he using to be saying it could have been worse if NDC was in power? NDC was in power when EBOLA was killing people in west Africa, did you see one person in Ghana with Ebola? You have close to 1000 cases now and you want us to believe you are doing a better job, when we know that if npp says look left you need to look right. They are massaging the numbers.
yes the NDC suggested you evacuate Ghanaian student from China and you refused thinking they were infected and would bring the virus to Ghana, meanwhile you stupidly open our boarders for Chinese and Italian to troop in and out of Ghana . are you sensible at all John boadu..please credit us with some respect and stop this cheap politics...at the time when the number was around 100, you and the npp cohorts were going round praising nana Addis for the way he was handling the case...today how many cases have we recorded...instead of bringing everyone onboard and forgetting about politics you are here during dirty politics..we are all praying for this pandemic to end, we are going to teach you guys a lesson in 2020 elections , trust me
This guy John Boadu never ceases to amaze me. He should be contained, controlled and managed in his akpeteshie drinking habit. Nothing about this guy John Boadu impresses me. How could you have deduced from your dead mental faculty that the situation would have been worse under NDC should it be in power. The NPP didn't take the spread of the Corona* serious in the early stages. Instead of securing our land boarders and ports of entry, they were busily out there registering people for Ghana cards- ignoring all voices of reasons. 3ne Y3n N3.
My friend stop this childish talk
Awwwww johnbulu buadu is confuse pa pa ! Better tell your BAD LUCKk to be honest to Ghanians .
So dis general secretary anytime he visit VC the 10 he comes up with senseless statements what a uselessssssss people we haf as leaders
It seems this guy is always on akpeteshie drinking spree and seem to lost his sense of direction. In the early stages of the outbreak of the virus, the gov't acted slowly despite appeals from the NDC and civil society groups to the gov't to take steps to contain or forestall any spread in the event of any reported case. To me, the NPP has miserably failed and is looking for a scapegoat.