Month: April 2020

Source: Gibran Horemheb-Rubio et al, 2017   A curious thing happened about a week ago. The Government of Ghana, which has been touting its investments into Covid-19 testing capacity to universal acclaim, as the country galloped up the continental league tables, suddenly found itself in the dock. Before long, prominent...

On 11th April, 2020, I wrote a blogpost warning that if the government of Ghana fails to get its data management under control, it will start to lose public trust, regardless of how well the actual management of the Covid-19 outbreak itself was going. On 19th April, 2020, the President...

On 19th April, 2020, the President of Ghana announced to Ghanaians that he was, effective from 20th April, lifting the “partial lockdown” imposed on the country since 30th March, 2020. He cited the “robustness of data” and the “constancy” of the situation as the basis for the decision, but he...

The Government of Ghana has announced a three-prong strategy for comprehensively responding to the Covid-19 crisis: Testing, Tracing & Treatment. Of those three dimensions, many observers feel that the first two are the most critical in the current phase of the crisis as they are more visible and more closely...