General News of Friday, 7 February 2020Source: primenewsghana.comCoronavirus: Foreign Affairs c'ttee explains why govt has not evacuated Ghanaian studentsForeign Affairs minister, Shirley Ayorkor BotchwayThe Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Frank Annoh Dompreh has explained why the government has not yet evacuated Ghanaian students in China back to the country. "First of all, we need to all appreciate that all our hearts go out there to the Ghanaian students in China and we must also appreciate the fact that this is a crisis nobody thought it will get here. First all of you can't just go and airlift students without proper arrangements, there must be proper quarantine preparation done in Ghana, there should be proper communication between the two countries. However Minority Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says the Akufo-Addo government can not continue to ignore the plea of Ghanaian students in China who want to be evacuated back to Ghana. They say the situation in Wuhan has left some of the Ghanaian students emotionally traumatized.

Source: GhanaWeb February 07, 2020 13:52 UTC