Cape Coast, Ghana, March 12, 2020//-Authorities of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have suspended incoming exchange visits and visiting professors, following the spread of the deadly coronavirus disease in some parts of the world.
The school in a notice circulated to heads of departments, directors, deans and provosts also announced that cancellation of all international conferences to be hosted by the school.
Although Ghana is yet to record any case of the pandemic, the UCC management led by its Pro Vice Chancellor put these measures in place to avert any eventuality of the disease outbreak.
Additionally, the UCC suspended international collaboration visits, while staff already out of the country will be asked to go through self quarantine upon their return to Ghana.
UCC is using Atlantic Hall (ATL), social media to educate students and staff as well as university community on the coronavirus also known as COVID-19.
Hand sanitizers to be provided at halls and hostels and offices, meeting venues should also have sanitizers.
Lecturers, staff, students are advised against handshakes, hugging and body contacts. Protective wears have been supplied to the UCC hospital.
The university therefore advised the public to use the banks and payment platform to buy admission forms to reduce traffic in cash offices.
More than 93,200 (including over 80,380 in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau) confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection including 3,204 deaths (including 2,983 in China, 79 in Italy, over 200 in Iran, 32 in South Korea, 12 in Japan, over 100 in the US, four in France, and one each in the Philippines, San Marino, Spain, Australia, Thailand, and Taiwan) have been reported across the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The COVID-19 disease is therefore becoming a human tragedy as well as an economic tragedy, threatening to erode the global economy gains.
It has prompted an unprecedented lockdown in China with knock-on effects on all the sectors of the global economy: aviation, automobile, banking and finance, education, health, manufacturing, oil and gas, trade and investment, among others.
However, there have been three reported cases of the COVID-19 disease in Africa so far, experts are still wondering why the continent is the least affected in the world.
So far some 90 cases of infection have reported in Africa.
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