President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described as baseless and unfounded claims by critics that his government has failed in the fight against the Coronavirus disease.
According to the president, the statistics available does not support claims that his government has failed in the fight against the Covid-19. He added that such claims by critics of his government are politically motivated as it is their only means of staying relevant in politics.
Buttressing his argument with statistics, the president stated that Ghana’s COVID-19 recovery rate has significantly improved from 89.5 percent to 95.1 percent in three weeks with the death toll still below 1 percent adding that four regions have no active case of COVID-19 at the moment.
He also pointed out that the country has cleared the backlogs of test at all testing centres thus resolving the issue of delays in test. Test results, he said, are currently churned out within 48hrs.
These success chalked in the fight against the pandemic, the president noted, defeat the claims that government failed in the fight against the global pandemic.
“These statistics undermine, as unfounded, the claim that Ghana has lost the battle to defeat COVID-19. There can only be one simple reason for this baseless assertion, and that is political expediency. But, as I have said before, do not begrudge those who make such statements, they need to make them to continue to try to stay relevant,” the president stated in his 15th address to the nation on Covid-19 response measures.
Commending health workers for their contribution in the fight against the disease, the president noted that the country’s gains in limiting the spread of the virus are attributable to the commitment of health workers at the forefront fighting the pandemic.
The Akufo-Addo government has been criticized by political opponents and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) for its handling of the fight against the pandemic. The main opposition party, NDC and its Flagbearer have on several occasions accused the government of failing to contain the virus and putting people’s lives at risk of contracting the virus with its decisions.
The NDC’S Flagbearer recently, in his hometown after going through the voter registration exercise, chastised the government for failing to contain the spread of the virus promising to better handle the fight against the disease should he be elected.
