The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has urged the government to keep the country’s land borders closed as part of measures to ensure that the Omicron variant does not spread.
According to the GHS, the lack of testing at these borders will put the country at risk if opened in a period of the spread of a new variant of Covid-19 across the world.
Speaking on Face to Face on Citi TV on whether it is advisable to open the country’s land borders in the first quarter of 2022, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye said the “time is not ripe.”
”Though the closure has had an adverse impact on the economies of border towns, it will be advisable we “study the Omicron virus a bit, check with our neighbours, and see how they are coping.”
“The health and economic balance need to be taken into consideration before such decisions are made,” he added.
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