Residents in Effutu block roads

Residents of Effutu in Cape Coast are protesting over the selection of Effutu Senior High School as an isolation centre for the treatment of Covid-19 cases.

The school is among the institutions in the Central Region selected to host suspected cases as the region records its first case of the novel coronavirus.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ministry of Health have supervised the designation of facilities across the country, as areas of isolation and quarantine as the cases arise.

The police are also at the scene to restore calm to the area, meanwhile, staff of St. Augustine’s College in the Central Region are also kicking against the idea of using the school as an isolation centre as health authorities arrive to prepare the grounds for the move.

According to them, they still live on campus and cannot share the facilities with suspected patients adding that their lives are at risk. Ghana currently has 313 confirmed cases of the virus with 6 deaths.

The regional distribution of the cases are as follows: Greater Accra Region has most cases (274) followed by the Ashanti Region (25), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1), Upper East Region (1) and Central Region (1).