Domestic Airlines in Ghana have commenced operations after they stopped working over COVID-19 over the last three weeks.
They are to resume full operations from Monday.
Ghana’s borders have been shut as part of measures to control the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
Aviation Minister Kofi Adda first hinted of the resumption of operations of local flights on Tuesday.
Speaking to journalists today at a disinfection exercise at KIA, he said: “We are here to disinfect the airport in all ways possible, the airspace, the walls, the counters and everything that will be touched by the operators or passengers and the other areas to be disinfected include the cargo section.”
He added that hand washing machines, sanitisers, and border nose and face mask would be made available and checked by the company before operation resumes again.
The Minister revealed that in the whole of Africa, Ghana is the only country that closed down its airport and is about to begin operations and “we want to do it well and do it right by ensuring that we set the right example for others to follow.”
“For countries who have closed down their airport and about to start again is only Ghana which has achieve such feat so we are hoping after today, they will be mobbing up by the Airport Company Port Health and soon after by the weekend Ghana will start domestic flight”, he said.
Mr Adda added that it is possible that permission will be granted to foreign embassies who want to evacuate personnel as “we have been doing and when they get the permission and bring the personnel, the Airport Company will do the right thing to ensure that they move them out of the country”.
As part of the ongoing disinfection exercise in the country, the Ministry of Local Government in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited extended the exercise to the Kotoka International Airport in Accra as part of measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The exercise which was conducted by Zoomlion was made up of 140 sprayers made up of 14 groups.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM