Nii Adjei Tawiah, Korle Klottey Municipal Chief Executive, together with other officials from the Assembly have embarked on a demarcation exercise at the Adabraka market to ensure that traders adhere to social distancing.

The market segregation exercise was to ensure that not all traders would be at the market at all times but just a few at a particular time.

Addressing the traders Nii Tawiah indicated that, the assembly had observed that the traders were not adhering to the social distancing protocol which could help in halting the spread of COVID-19.

He said this was not the time for talking but time for the laws to be enforced to help halt the spread and ensure that everyone was safe.

“The virus is no respecter of persons and it does not know about market days or not. The way you go about your normal business claiming today and tomorrow are your market days, if we are not careful we would be doing more harm than good to ourselves and the Assembly would not just sit and watch. We are taking action now,” he said.

He, therefore, advised the traders not to ignore any of the precautionary measures outlined by the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service to ensure they are safe and healthy.

Mr Bernard Yingura, the Coordinating Director of the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly said for some time now they had been in constant communication with the leadership of the market to discuss ways of implementing and observing social distancing in the market.

Source: GNA