3 months COVID-19 Water relief for Ghanaians – Govt

COVID-19 Water relief for Ghanaians for 3 months was announced during the 5th update by the president.

He indicated that Ghana water company and electricity Company of Ghana are to provide stable supply devoid of disconnection.  Water and Electricity bills to be absorbed by Government for April, May and June 2020.

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This means postpaid and prepaid electricity users will pay bills but not for water.

The COVID-19 Water and Electricity relief for three months will be a big relief for Ghana. The announcement has been greeted with cheers by Ghanaians.

Ghana has confirmed nine (9) additional COVID-19 cases; six (6) from Greater Accra and three (3) from Ashanti region.

Among the cases from Greater Accra, one is a 37-year-old woman with no history of travel nor contact with a confirmed case. One is a repeat test of a traveller under quarantine who was initially negative but converted to positive on a repeat test. Four ae contacts of confirmed cases with no symptoms and were detected during the enhanced contact tracing and testing.

Of the three (3) cases from Ashanti region, two (2) are Ghanaians who travelled to Ghana from France within the past 14 days and the third one is a Ghanaian who has no history of travel out of the country nor contact with an any confirmed case.

As at 4 th April 2020, Ghana has recorded a total of 214 cases of COVID-19 with five (5) deaths. Currently, the number of regions reporting cases are as follows: Greater Accra, Ashanti, Northern, Upper West Eastern and Upper East Region. The Greater Accra Region has most cases (189) followed by the Ashanti Region (12), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1) and Upper East Region (1).

Most of the cases are reported from routine / enhanced surveillance activities. Cases from travellers under mandatory quarantine are 90.