Zoomlion disinfects 120 institutions in Bono Region

The Bono Regional Office of the Zoomlion Ghana Limited has embarked on a -two -day disinfection and Fumigation exercise at some one hundred and twenty (120) institutions in the Bono Region.

The exercise which was scheduled for Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6 was part of governments effort to curtail the spread of the Novel Pandemic.

Institutions disinfected and fumigated were the Bono Regional Coordinating Council, the Sunyani Central Prisons, the Sunyani Manhene's place, the Abesim Chief Palace, and the Ghana National Fire Service substation at Abesim.

The rest include the Centre for National Culture, the Bono Regional office of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, the Sunyani Municipal Education Office, the Sunyani High Court and Ark FM Radio Limited.

Addressing the media, the Bono Regional Manager for Zoomlion, Mrs Esther Abayita said the move was as part of his office's corporate responsibility as far as the COVID-19 Pandemic is concerned. She said the exercise is the first face of institutional disinfection and Fumigation exercise in the second face of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

According to her, the second face shall be conducted at the various police facilities nationwide.

Mrs Abayita, however, used the opportunity to entreat the general public to strictly adhere to the safety protocols as the virus is real and has been claiming lives in the country and the world at large.

The country has recorded a total of 70, 046 cases of COVID 19 with a total of 63,502 recoveries and 44 deaths since the emergence of the virus in 2019.

Experts have been calling for another lockdown as the country risk succumbing to the virus but President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo in his 23rd address to the Nation reintroduce the ban on funerals and weddings as part of measure to curtail the spread of the virus.

So far, a total of nine cases have been recorded in three schools in the Bono Region.