The Greater Accra Divisional Head of the Ghana Medical Association has advised the public to never forget preventive measures put in place by the World Health Organisation to help curb the spread of Covid-19.

Dr Ernest Yorke who was speaking on the Super Morning Show stressed that the only way to control the spread of the virus while living with it is to continuously practice social distancing as was done to control the spread of SARS in China in 2002 and MERS in 2015.

“In 2002 there was the outbreak of SARS in China and MERS a few years ago, and now we have Covid-19. In all of these outbreaks of a pandemic, what controlled the disease was maintaining physical distancing and wearing face masks. 

“That is the only way and that is the safe tested way of controlling a pandemic that is transmitted human to human,” the endocrinologist explained.

He appealed to the public to remember to practice the measure among the others as the government deliberates how the country would live with the virus.

“So while this debate that is happening now in Ghana whether to relax or not relax [restrictions], we should live with; I think we should never forget that whatever the final decision will be from the government each preventive principle must remain – maintaining physical distancing, the hand hygiene and the wearing of face masks.”