HE question of how to safely celebrate the holiday season this year is currently occupying a lot of people’s minds. In the UK, up to three households will be able to meet indoors at private homes for five days over Christmas in most of the country, and for seven days in Northern Ireland.
The news sparked widespread cheer, but some scientists have warned against the “Christmas truce”, predicting it will lead to a surge in coronavirus infections. So what can people do to reduce their risks?
Ghana is West Africa’s most impacted nation behind Nigeria, at a point in May 2020, Ghana led the regional case load. June has started with progressive lifting of more virus restrictions.
President Akufo-Addo in his tenth address announced that whiles borders remained closed, some categories of academic institutions are allowed to resume, religious places can also reopen with strict conditions and the observance of health protocols.
Social gatherings -weddings, funerals etc. – are to be allowed under certain conditions – among others with maximum 100 participants. As the 2020 polls loom, even political activity is allowed to be undertaken.
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The US reported record daily increases in coronavirus cases, hospitalisations and deaths yesterday. There were 217,664 new cases, 100,667 people hospitalised with the virus and 2879 people who died from covid-19 – all record high figures since its epidemic began. US health adviser Anthony Fauci warned that the situation is likely to become even worse in the coming weeks. “I think January is going to be terrible because you’re going to have the Thanksgiving surge super-imposed upon the Christmas surge,” Fauci told Newsweek. “It’s entirely conceivable that January could be the worst,” he said.
California, where hospital admissions have risen by 86 per cent in the past 14 days, is one of the latest US states to introduce new restrictions. Yesterday, the state’s governor Gavin Newsom announced a new stay-at-home order as well as restrictions on businesses and on non-essential travel. “This is the most challenging moment since the start of the pandemic,” Newsom told a press conference. “Lives will be lost unless we do more than we’ve ever done. We are being called to do everything in our power to make the kind of tough decisions that are required to get through this,” he said