President of IMANI-Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has  the Minister for Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh to annul the 2019/2020 academic calendar and shut down schools as the country's coronavirus cases keep rising.

In his view, President Akufo-Addo's decision to reopen schools for final year students despite the rise in cases reported, was a step in the wrong direction.

This concern follows reports that suggest, about 6 students of Accra Girls Senior High School (SHS) have reported positive of virus.

According to a media report, some 11 students of the school showed symptoms of the virus and were isolated in the school's sickbay on Monday June 29, 2020.

The report continued that after running several COVID-19 tests on 11 of the suspected students, 6 of them tested positive and were transferred to the the Ga East Municipal Hospital for treatment.

Following this breaking report, the President and Chief Executive Officer of IMANI has in a facebook post sighted by Georgeweb.org petitioned the President of the Republic to consider shutting down of all reopened schools.

Mr. Franklin Cudjoe on his facebook wall urged that "Mr. President, shut the schools NOW!"

Meanwhile, His Excellency Nana Ado Dankwa Akufo-Addo has gone into self-isolation for 14 days after one of his contacts tested positive of the novel deadly coronavirus, the Information Minister, Hon Kojo Oppong Nkrumah announced on Saturday July 4, 2020.

The Government spokesperson in a statement copied to Georgeweb.org said "on the advice of doctors, President Akufo-Addo is from July 4, 2020 taking a 2 weeks precautionary self-isolation measures in complaince with COVID-19 protocols".

The Member of Parliament for the Ofoase-Ayirebi constituency and Minister for Information, in the statement disclosed that Akufo-Addo after several tested negative for the virus.

Source: Georgeweb.org via opera.com