{"id":2698,"date":"2020-04-07T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T10:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/nu\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2020-04-07T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T10:47:58","slug":"covid-19-playing-football-in-the-midst-of-a-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/covid-19-playing-football-in-the-midst-of-a-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Playing football in the midst of a lockdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2699\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2699\" src=\"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Christabel-Osei-Boateng-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Christabel-Osei-Boateng-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Christabel-Osei-Boateng.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christabel Osei-Boateng |Photo: Courtesy Christabel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By: Christabel Osei-Boateng, P4H focal person of La Nkwantanag Madina Municipality <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In line with directives given by the president and the Ghana health service to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens have been advised to wash their hands and use hand sanitizers regularly and most importantly observe social distancing. A partial lockdown is being embarked on in Greater Accra and Kumasi regions.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst these directives, some inhabitants of Madina new road, a suburb of the La Nkwantanag Madina Municipality seem unconcerned about social distancing. For these inhabitants, life still goes on as it has always been even with the presence of COVID-19, they simply can\u2019t adjust to accommodate these directives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is 11:30 am on 1st April 2020 and the football park behind the Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church is occupied with about 20 men, some engaged in a football match, others as spectators and another set engaged in a draught or checker game. Although this meets the criteria for social gatherings which is pegged at 25 people, these persons were in close contact with each other.<\/p>\n<p>These scenes made me wonder whether all citizens truly understand the destructive nature of COVID-19 to human lives and more importantly whether the partial lockdown is in our own interest as citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Christabel Osei-Boateng, P4H focal person of La Nkwantanag Madina Municipality In line with directives given by the president and the Ghana health service to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens have been advised to wash their hands and use hand sanitizers regularly and most importantly observe social distancing. A partial lockdown is being embarked on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19-community-response"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}