The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) has resolved to intensify enforcement of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) safety protocols to curb increasing number of cases in the region.
To this end, it has advised the public to mandatorily adhere to all COVID-19 safety protocols at all events in any public place and space in the region at all times.
A statement signed and issued by the Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, in Accra yesterday noted that, the enforcement was in collaboration with the Regional Police Command and the Regional Health Directorate.
All Security Councils in the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), it said, should embark on routine checks at public places including schools, lorry stations, markets and commercial vehicles to ensure that there were strict compliances.
It asked MMDAs to collaborate with their respective Police Commanders and other security apparatus in ensuring that all activities associated with funerals were held in open air spaces and it should not exceed duration of two hours.
The statement asked the Assemblies to immediately reactivate their District Public Health Emergency Management Committees in the fight against the pandemic.
It asked the MMDAs to start their sensitisation programmes on COVID-19 and its safety protocols as a wakeup call for all.
The statement asked the Assemblies to ensure that individuals or group of persons who breach the protocols were arrested, fined or prosecuted according to the law to serve as deterrent to others and directed that they continue to play their supervisory role with random spot checks on all these public bans.
The statement, however, appealed to traditional, political, religious and opinion leaders in the region to be at the forefront of the drive and campaign in order to curtail the steep increases of COVID-19 cases.
BY CLAUDE NYARKO ADAMS
