The Accra High Court has given the National Identification Authority (NIA) the greenlight to continue with the Ghana card registration.
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This comes following the court rejection of an injunction placed on the registration exercise by two Ghanaian citizens Kevow Mark-Oliver and Emmanuel Akumetey Okrah.
According to the two citizens, the exercise flout on the government’s directives of social distancing to avoid the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The injunction saw the NIA suspending the Ghana card registration exercise which was ongoing in the Eastern region.
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On Friday morning, the Accra High Court, presided over Justice Anthony Oppong ruled that the exercise does not go against the social distance directives and has given the NIA the go ahead.
Coronavirus cases in Ghana
Since the outbreak of the disease in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Ghana has recorded 136 cases with 3 deaths as of Friday March 27, 2020.
Majority of the confirmed cases are Ghanaians, who returned home from affected countries. Seven (7) are of other nationals namely: Norway, Lebanon, China, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (UK).
The number of confirmed cases among travelers under mandatory quarantine who have been tested is seventy-eight (78).
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In respect of contact tracing, a total of 1,006 contacts have been identified and are being tracked.
Out of these, two hundred and four (204) have completed the 14 days mandatory follow up.
