The attitudes of many Ghanaians toward the observation of the health preventive protocols for the COVID-19 pandemic was to begin with not encouraging in the early times of March 2020 when the place recorded her initial two situations. This was attributed to the infodemic that went viral that the black gene was immune to the coronavirus. From that time, numerous Ghanaian citizens numbering into 1000’s have examined optimistic to the coronavirus, opposite to the before incorrect assertion that the virus was resistant to the black skin. At the moment, Ghana’s case rely for coronavirus is 22, 822 with 129 fatalities. This at any time-increasing quantity in documented COVID-19 circumstances must have produced the ordinary Ghanaian quite cautious in meticulously subsequent the safety protocols. On the opposite, some Ghanaian citizens, with the greater part in the illiterate class as a random survey conducted by the writer proposed.

Two well-liked views had been expressed in the survey. The initial and top view was that the figures for the described COVID-19 cases given in the everyday COVID-19 update by the Ghana government’s instrument, the Ghana Health Provider, was flawed and misleading, aimed at attracting worldwide funding. Thus, the figures cited in the nation for coronavirus, to these Ghanaians, are misleading and politically inspired to aid the nation to get global monetary help. Political electoral opposers have fingered the ruling authorities as employing the purported resources thought to have been received for their political campaigns in the standard election scheduled for December seven, 2020.

The next well-known look at shared by several Ghanaians in the illiterate category of the inhabitants is that they are uncertain of the existence of the coronavirus. Even although some Ghanaian politicians and renowned customers in the Ghanaian society have died from the COVID-19, several of them still question the genuine result in of their deaths. Some Ghanaians even declare that they would imagine in the existence of the coronavirus only right after a member of their family contracts it or dies as a outcome of it. Other people assert that even if the coronavirus exists, govt and other company associations have exaggerated its wellness impacts.

Based mostly on Sanifa , observing the basic safety protocols for the COVID-19 is not a priority or anything at all to be given significant attention. The wearing of experience masks is not noticed by such individuals. Even if they have confront masks, they refuse to put on them. Few do so when they observe the existence of police officers. Numerous others when questioned about why they are not in experience masks, give flimsy excuses. They claim that the prolonged wearing of the experience mask makes respiration challenging, whilst many other folks say that it helps make speaking audibly a challenge. Regrettably, these attitudes of these Ghanaians, if not corrected or addressed, would perhaps lead to a higher leap in the COVID-19 reported cases in the immediate long term in Ghana. To solution the circumstance, the government of Ghana must deploy far more protection personnel to various cities and communities in the country to implement the implementation of the Ghana government’s directive of donning encounter masks at all moments and all places.

The government of Ghana through the Ghana Wellness Service have to ensure that continued public overall health education and learning on the existence of the coronavirus and the relevance of observing all the protection protocols to stop the infection and spread of the coronavirus is carried out to dispel the developing infodemics about the COVID-19 in the region. Also, the Ghana Health Services need to tactfully use the details centres in the numerous tiny towns and communities as communication retailers in disseminating public wellness schooling on the coronavirus in their respective regional dialects. This could enhance the previously great endeavours by the Ghana govt in using radio and tv stations as effectively as the print media in carrying out general public health schooling on the coronavirus. These suggestions would help avoid the probably hoopla in the amount of COVID-19 instances in Ghana, projected in the immediate foreseeable future as a consequence of the emergence of the quickly spreading and new infodemics.