Traders who sell personal protective equipment (PPE) like nose mask, face shield and COVID-19 safety items like alcohol-based sanitizers and liquid soap at the Takoradi Central Business District (CBD) of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis have bemoaned the decline in sales of the items.
According to them, even though the price of such items have dropped significantly people do not find the need to patronise them under the pretext that the coronavirus has vanished in the nation in particular, the Western Region.
One of the traders who mentioned her name as Yaaba told Spice News that smaller bottles of the hand sanitizer which hitherto were sold at GHc 10.00 now goes for GHc 3.00 while the bigger bottles sold at GHc 30.00 now goes for GHc 12.00.
“Even those times when it was so expensive, people were rushing to buy them but now that the prices have gone down people no longer buy the products”, she lamented.
She therefore urged members of the public not to lose their guard in containing the spread of the disease in order to defeat it entirely and bring back the economy on its toes.
Spice News observed that trading activities have come to normal at the various marketplaces without regard for the COVID-19 safety protocols.
Against this background, Sister Comfort Arthur, Health Promotion Officer at the Holy Child Catholic Hospital called on the public not to ignore the COVID-19 safety protocols like hand washing with soap under running water, wearing of nose mask, rubbing of alcohol-based sanitizers on the palm and keeping to social distancing.
She said this was necessary in that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced a surge in Ghana’s COVID-19 active cases which now stands at 566 after 64 new infections were reported on October 27.
According to the latest update on the Service’s website, Ghana has since March recorded 48,055 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus disease with 47,169 recoveries/discharges.
The Service also said some 320 deaths have been recorded. The regional breakdown is as follow: Greater Accra Region (25,071), Ashanti Region (11,008), Western Region (2,978), Eastern Region (2,426), Central Region (1,931) and Bono East Region (785).
The rest are Volta Region (682), Western North Region (651), Bono Region (550), Northern Region (547), Ahafo Region (528), Upper East Region (358), Oti Region (242), Upper West Region (90), Savannah Region (62) and North East Region (19).
Story: Seth Ameyaw Danquah
