The president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has anounced the reopening of Ghana’s land and sea borders two years after closing them as a COVID-19 preventive measure.
He made this announcement whiles addressing the nation on its 28th address to the nation on COVID-19 on Sunday, March 27, 2022, and said that it will however take effect on Monday, March 28, 2022.
“As from tomorrow, Monday, 28th March, all land and sea borders will be opened”, the president said.
He added that, “Fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed entry through the land and sea borders without a negative PCR test result from the country of origin. Citizens and foreign residents in Ghana, who are not fully vaccinated, will have to produce a negative 48-hour PCR test result, and will be offered vaccination on arrival.”
Background
In March 21, 2020, one could recall that the President suggested the need for Ghana’s borders to be closed as part of the measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.
On March 22, 2020, he however ordered the closure of Ghana’s land, sea, and air borders to human traffic, effective midnight.
Meanwhile, despite several appeals to the government by lawmakers from the land border communities for the borders to be opened, the government argued that opening the borders would lead to the importation of more COVID-19 cases.