Coronavirus: Kumasi central market adopts ‘double track’ system for traders (Video)
Authorities of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) have introduced a colour-coded shift system for traders at the central market in a bid to prevent overcrowding amid the coronavirus pandemic to enable now closed Kumasi Central Market to be opened on Thursday April 9, 2020 for trading activities.
Commercial activities by merchants according to an agreement reached between the Metro Security Council (METSEC), the eleven member steering committee and leaders of the sixty seven trade associations of the market will be regulated under strict conditions so as to help ensure their obeisance to the WHO’s social distancing protocol.
Per the newly coined list of code, all f 5,825 food sellers at central market shall be grouped into three and that each group will be identified with a uniquely designed identity cards in RED,GOLD and GREEN colors.
Commercial activities of all groups will be carried out under a shift system.
A press release signed by the Public Relations Officer for KMA Madam Henrietta Afia Konadu Aboagye and copied to the office of otecfmghana.com discloses that only 1,942 members dealing in all assorted commodities of all trade associations shall be allowed by authorities to trade on each day.
According to the Public Relations Officerwho spoke to otecnews’ reporter Collins Kojo Owusu, the market will be opened for traders on Wednesday, 8th April 2020 for the formalization all arrangements pertaining to the rotational system to be practiced.
The Ashanti Region capital is part of the locations under the coronavirus lockdown, however, trading in food items is among activities exempted from the restriction on movement.
Ghana’s coronavirus situation
Ghana’s coronavirus case count has risen sharply to 287, according to the latest update by Ghana Health Service late Monday, April 6, 2020.
At the last count, confirmed Covid-19 cases stood at 214, implying 73 new persons have tested positive for the deadly virus.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com
