UG suspends lectures due to COVID-19 on campus

By
Abdulai Haruna, GNA

Accra, March 15, GNA
– The University of Ghana (UG) has suspended lectures on all its campuses,
including clinicals and practicals with immediate effect due to an imported
case of COVID-19 infection involving a non-resident students who returned to
Ghana from an international trip.

This was contained
in a press statement copied the Ghana News Agency on Sunday which said the
University was updating its COVID-19 preparedness.

 It cautioned students and staff who reside
outside UG campuses and were currently off campus to keep away from the
campuses until they were asked to return adding that staff who provides
essential services were excluded from those directive.

The statement added
that the University’s Basic Schools and the Baby Nest Creche on Legon Campus were
to be closed down until further notice.

It said the
University would, however, not be closed down until contact tracing has been
effectively completed, adding “Students and staff who reside on campuses of the
University are therefore urged to remain on the campuses. Those who may have
the infection and leave campus are likely to spread the virus.”

It said the
University’s Emergency Response Team (UG ERT) had linked up with the national
contact tracing team to enhance efforts.

The statement said
social gatherings, religious services and sporting activities on the University
campuses have already been suspended and that the suspension will continue to
be in force.

Leadership of the
Institution in the statement assured the University community that those measures
were preventive and precautionary and that the risk of COVID-19 infection to
individuals in University community to remain very low.

GNA