Some 41 Ghanaians who were in the United States (US) have arrived back in Ghana.

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They touched down earlier on Saturday, June 6, 2020 at the Kotoko International Airport at around 9:20am.

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Citinewsroom reports that majority of them were students who went on an exchange program sponsored by the State Department of the US.

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The evacuees have since been checked into a hotel in Accra, as they begin a two-week mandatory quarantine.

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Meanwhile, two more contingents from Burkina Faso and Turks and Caicos are expected to arrive later.

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“The exchange program was supposed to be for ten months. So we were supposed to come back on June 8,” one of the students told Citi News.

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“But we left our various states on June 3 and then we went to the USA to stay overnight and then we left.”

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration had already announced plans by the government to evacuate stranded Ghanaians from foreign countries.

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Sector Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway said Nigeria, Mauritania, Ethiopia, China, United States of America, United Kingdom and UAE are some of the countries captured on the schedule.

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She said negotiations are already underway to evacuate some 675 Ghanaians who are currently stranded in China.

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Source: pulse.com.gh

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