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Ghana Police is fining people 20 cedis for not wearing a face mask

Saturday, February 06, 2021 at 8:20 PM by Nii Ayi Ayitey

- Persons who are caught not wearing their masks are fined 20 cedis

- A picture of the receipt acknowledging payment of such fines has emerged

- Ghana’s case count sored upon the importation of the UK Variant of Covid-19

The Accra and Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly together with the Ghana Police Service, are imposing fines of 20 cedis on road users and traders who flout the mandatory mask-wearing mandate ordered by the President.

A Facebook post by a journalist with the Business and Financial Times, Osei Amankwah, shows a picture of the receipt acknowledging receipt of a 20 cedi fine imposed on one Dela.

So far, over 100,000 Ghanaians across the country have been arrested in a swoop by police officials for flouting the directive.

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The Police survive has also been deployed to clamp down on Ghanaians flouting the mandatory mask-wearing directive.

Meanwhile, Ghana is expected to receive its first batch of 2.4 million vaccines by March, This will spark the first batch of inoculation even as the President aims to inoculate the entire population of 30 million.

Figures from the Ministry of Health shows a spike in daily numbers since December – this has been linked to indiscipline, flouting of covid-19 protocols and the elections.

Already, the Ghana Medical Association has warned the public that “their health is in their own hands” and hospitals get overstretched to deal with the surge of the virus.

Even as government races to curtail the spread of the virus, suspicions of a suppression of Covid-19 data keeps rising.

Journalists and some medical professionals are doubting the figures being churned by the Ministry of Health as they argue that they (the figures) are in sharp contrast with the reality at various medical facilities.