The National Service Scheme
(NSS) has directed all Service Personnel to resume work on Monday, May 4, 2020.
This
comes after personnel were forced to take a month’s paid leave in March due to
the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ghana.
All
newly-posted nurses who were due to start national service in April 2020, were
also made to take the month of April 2020 as their terminal leave.
But
the Public Relations Officer of the Scheme, Armstrong Esaah in a Citi News interview said since the paid leave was
for the month of which has since ended, personnel are to resume work on Monday,
May 4, 2020.
“Their
mandatory leave expired on the 30th of last month and so they are to resume
work on Monday, May 4, 2020. We have actually reminded them (NSP) to return to
their various user agencies under strict instructions of the user agency and so
once they go back to the agencies, they will have to adhere to the
precautionary measures that their respective companies have put in place.”
Mr.
Armstrong Esaah further assured the personnel that their April allowances will
be paid.
“They are
going to be paid and if some of them have not received their April allowances
then, I’m sure from next week, they will receive their allowances. It was a
paid leave and they are going to have their allowances intact,” he added.
Confirmed
cases of coronavirus in Ghana
As of
Saturday, May 2, 2020, Ghana has a total of 2,169 cases with 18 deaths 229
recoveries.
Regional
breakdown
The
Greater Accra region still leads as the region with the highest number of
confirmed cases followed by the Ashanti Region and the Eastern Region.
- Greater Accra Region – 1,852
- Ashanti Region – 117
- Eastern Region – 87
- Central Region – 21
- Oti Region – 19
- Upper East Region – 19
- Volta Region – 16
- Northern Region – 13
- Upper West Region – 10
- Western Region – 9
- Western North Region – 4
- North East Region – 2
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