The Takoradi Market place Circle with each other with four other key marketplaces in the Western Area has been shut down for a week.
This, in accordance to authorities, is to let for the different assemblies to undertake a fumigation and disinfection training.
The closure follows an rising selection of Covid-19 conditions and the incapability of traders to observe social distancing at the markets which have been discovered as a hotspot.
The Region on Tuesday, overtook the Ashanti Area as the country’s most recent Covid-19 hotspot location.
“The new hotspot is in the Western Area which noted about 57 new situations. It is mostly the Sekondi-Takoradi municipality and the metropolis and then Tarkwa,” Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye from the Ghana Well being Servicve experienced advised journalists at a push conference in Accra.
In a statement announcing the closure, the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly claimed the conclusion was taken immediately after an crisis council meeting concerning the Sekondi-Takoradi Metro and the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipal Assemblies
Aside from the closure of the markets, all Presidential directives such as the suspension of social gatherings and the putting on of confront masks are to be enforced by all the assemblies.
Leadership of the numerous marketplaces will also be “engaged to introduce a shift technique applying colors when the marketplaces are reopened. Whilst the Takoradi current market will run 3 shifts (i.e. red, yellow, and environmentally friendly), Sekondi, Kojokrom and Effiakuma Selection 9 Markets will run two shifts (i.e. pink and yellow).”
The statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, John Laste also mentioned that all exclusive market times have been short-term suspended across the metropolitan space.
The most current enhancement will come, less than a month right after President Akufo-Addo lauded the market place women in the twin-metropolis for observing superior social distancing which was vital in controlling the distribute of the virus.
In his eighth tackle to the Nation, President Akufo-Addo had identified as on current market women of all ages and traders throughout the country to emulate the one of a kind Social distancing model currently been practiced by traders in marketplaces in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
According to the President, “the example of Markets in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis wherever social distancing is becoming effectively observed, is an exceptional a single for sector gals all above the country”.
But with 7,303 confirmed coronavirus scenarios in Ghana, the Western Location has recorded 357, creating it a person of the regions with the highest contaminated individuals.
