Dr Peter Quarshie, senior research fellow and deputy director in charge of research at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) has advised Ghanaians to continue to wear face masks when in crowded areas, despite loosening the pandemic measures.
He said that although Ghana has low levels of COVID-19 infections, the country should not drop its guard in containing the virus.
Speaking to Beatrice Adu on The Big Bulletin on Monday (28 March 2022), Dr Quarshie said, “even though there’s nothing to support enforcing mandatory face masks, I’ll still recommend that in large crowds; in public where there’s a lot of people, you wear your facemask because you don’t know what might happen. We talk about omicron, but right now, omicron is about three variants, in the US, they had a mild variant which has now become a serious variant and we don’t know what is going to happen.”
“…We haven’t had that serious variant in Ghana yet so, that’s why we still have to keep monitoring and we still have to keep the surveillance going. I’ll recommend that it’s a personal decision [to wear face mask], there’s no public health risk right now.”
GhanaFeed.com
