Churches in the Ashanti Location have been directed to officially sign-up their premises for effective checking by the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).
The directive arrives in the wake of the the latest lifting of the government’s ban on church accumulating which was necessitated by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak.
“The Regional Stability Council (REGSEC) is asking all churches to undertake the necessary registration processes at their respective MMDAs in this significant time of COVID-19.
This is to aid the operate of the assemblies in the spot of monitoring to examine irrespective of whether or not the church buildings would abide by the steps put in spot in the class of their things to do to mitigate the spread of the pandemic,” Mr Simon Osei-Mensah, the Chairman, informed a push convention in Kumasi.
These who flout this get, he explained, would be dealt with, stressing that the Protection Council would not compromise in its resolve to assure that the COVID-19 preventive protocols were being adhered to strictly by the church.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in his recent tenth address to the nation on steps taken versus the spread of the pandemic, declared the lifting of the ban on spiritual meetings, including the church.
In accordance to the President, all church solutions have to be done within just an hour with a congregation of not additional than 1 hundred (100), whilst the identity of the associates ought to also be booked just before this sort of activities are held.
Additionally, leaders of the different churches are to ensure that all the COVID-19 preventive protocols are adopted to the letter, which include social distancing and hand-washing, as nicely as the use of hand sanitizers.
Less than the new pointers, church buildings are also necessary to use thermometer guns in examining the system temperature of users before they are allowed entry into the respective premises.
Ghana’s confirmed COVID-19 circumstance count stood at 8,297, with 2,986 recoveries and 38 deaths, as of Tuesday, June 02, this 12 months, according to the Ghana Well being Service’s portal on the pandemic.
