On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The disease was christened COVID-19 and the pathogen (an RNA virus) identified as SARS-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).
In Africa, more than 90,0000 cases have been reported with about 3,000 deaths. South Africa has recorded the highest number of cases with 23,615 cases and 481 deaths. Ghana confirmed its first cases of COVID-19 on 12th March 2020 and had as at 25 May 2020 recorded over 7,000 cases with 34 deaths.
The Blessing Api Apum Foundation a non-governmental organization with the sole mandate of creating thriving communities by empowering young people especially children, widows and orphanages to become resilient, dependant, capable, and connected in the society and the world at large.
We are also into local community projects amid at building and sustaining basic amenities for the communities. Amidst the breakout of the novel corona virus, we embarked on project avoid the spread of corona virus by giving out hand sanitizer’s, nose mask as well as food items to deprived communities. We also visited some orphanage homes with some relief items to stop the spread of the virus. Below is a pictorial view.
Pictorial View
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