Losing Covid-19 Fight: How the Ghanaians Attitude Eroded Government’s Effort

Abstract

Coronavirus (Covid-19) is a deadly disease caused by an acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and was discovered in Wuhan, China in late 2019. The World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. From the onset, Ghana was among the leading countries boldly confronting and containing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic but later slipped downwards and is now among the top ten (10) countries with high case counts of Covid-19 in Africa. This paper presents comprehensive exploratory insights into Ghana’s Covid-19 situation, focusing on how Ghanaians attitude has frustrated the government’s effort in the fight against Covid-19. The paper was structured as follows: section one presents the background, section two discusses the outbreak of Covid-19 in Ghana, section three delves into the government’s immediate and aggressive response to curbing the spread of Covid-19, section four details how the government addressed the socioeconomic impact of Covid-19 on Ghanaians livelihoods and businesses, section five discusses the Ghanaians attitude as a major driving factor for the upsurge of Ghana’s Covid-19 case counts, section six discusses the waning war against Covid-19 in Ghana, and section 7 provided some possible recommendations to combating the pandemic. Keywords: Coronavirus, Covid-19, SARS-COV-2, Ghana, Ghanaians, Attitude, Lockdown, Accra, Kumasi.