{"id":40130,"date":"2021-02-10T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=40130"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:41:01","slug":"ghana-shuts-down-parliament-for-three-weeks-as-covid-19-infections-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=40130","title":{"rendered":"Ghana shuts down parliament for three weeks, as COVID-19 infections increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ghana\u2019s parliament has been shut down by concerned authorities following the increasing cases of COVID-19 infections among lawmakers and staff of the nations National Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was made known in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Speaker of the House, Alban Bagbin who said that the parliament will suspend sittings for three weeks due to increasing cases of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/COVID-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Speaker of the House who said that sittings would resume on 2 March, the number of MPs who have contracted the virus has risen to 17 while that of staff has gone up to 151.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bagbin said; \u201cParliament\u2019s appointments committee would from 10 February continue with the scheduled vetting of cabinet nominees of President Nana Akufo-Addo, who won re-election in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLawmakers and staff are to resubmit themselves to testing two weeks from Wednesday, public broadcaster Ghana Broadcasting Corporation reports,\u201d he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-47639452\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s parliament has been shut down by concerned authorities following the increasing cases of COVID-19 infections among lawmakers and staff of the nations National Assembly. 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