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Awatif Taha, a community worker who lives in the locked down Flemington public housing towers in Melbourne, has written about being abruptly confined to her apartment.
The police have been good tonight – very polite and very respectful. But it is still a shock to see so many of them.
We are worried now about how we will get food and medication. Some people were planning to shop tomorrow and have no food. We need to know how this will be handled. People need medication, bread, milk, things for babies. We don’t know yet how that will be done. I am happy for the government to take care of us. I just want to thank Australia.
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo will isolate for 14 days on the advice of doctors after a person in his close circle tested positive for coronavirus, Reuters reports.
“He has, as at today, tested negative, but has elected to take this measure out of the abundance of caution,” a government statement said, adding that the president will continue to work during the period, in compliance with Covid-19 safety protocols.
The statement did not say if the close person was a staff or family member.
Ghana has recorded 19,388 coronavirus cases, one of the highest number of cases in sub-Saharan Africa, with 117 deaths.
The West African nation’s deputy trade and industry minister Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah resigned on Friday for violating coronavirus self-isolation measures after he tested positive for the virus.
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