Disinfection efforts are continuing in Ghana as the country steps up efforts to contain the coronvirus disease (Covid-19).
Major markets across the West African nation are being sprayed and campaigns for adherence to personal hygiene are intensifying.
The disinfection exercise began in the national capital, Accra, and spread out to other parts of the country including Kumasi.
Markets in the country’s Bono Region, a newly created region, have been added to the exercise.
Some 2,000 sprayers from waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, supported by staffs from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Bono Regional Coodinating Council including NADMO and personnel from the Ghana Army, the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Fire Service descended on markets in that region in the early hours of Monday, March 30, 2020 to begin the spraying exercise in Sunyani and other parts of the region.
Shops and other trading centers in the areas being sprayed have been shut down.
In all, 125 markets in Bono, 78 in Bono East and 43 in Ahafo Regions and open spaces, lorry parks and streets are being sprayed with chlorine solution approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Bono Regional Minister, Evelyn Ama Kumi Richardson, has been urging the sprayers to do a good work, appealing to residents to remain in doors during the exercise.
By Daniel Dayee