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Bolgatanga Assembly enforces COVID-19 protocols

The Municipal Chief Executive of Bolgatanga, Joseph Atura Amiyuure, has said since the municipality recorded its first confirmed case of the disease, the Security Council had initiated measures to help curb the spread of the virus, which included the closure of the central market as well as the relocation of traders to different places in the township.

Date Created : 5/21/2020 2:20:25 AM : Story Author : Ghanadistricts.com

The MCE said the measures undertaken by the Municipal Security Council (MUSEC) with regards to the fight against the novel coronavirus are in consonance with the directive of the president.

He said measures being taken are aimed at ensuring that the president’s directives are obeyed in their quest to stopping the spread of the COVID-19 in the municipality.

Mr. Amiyuure indicated that MUSEC tried to have an engagement with the market women, but all efforts proved futile and it later gathered that the women had turned down the initial agreement for visiting traders to relocate to the old market.

He said the Security Council has no option but to take a final decision without the women and directed that all those selling grains be relocated to the old market and this made the women expressed their dissatisfaction by trying to demonstrate.