23 March 2020 – Law passed to limit public gatherings and travel

Type of Intervention: Regulation
Sectors Involved: Police and Interior Affairs
Intervention Categories: Social and physical distancing measures; Adapting or closing offices, businesses, institutions, and operations; Gatherings, businesses, and services
Level of Jurisdiction: National
Lead People/Agency: GHANA HEALTH SERVICE, GHANA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT,

Overview: E.I.64:Imposition of Restrictions (Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) Pandemic) Instrument, 2020 which was passed on 23rd March 2020. This law was made pursuant to the Imposition of Restrictions Act, 2020 (Act 1012) and established to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and protect public health and public safety. It among other things restricts public gatherings such as conferences, workshops, funerals, festivals, political rallies, sporting events and sporting clubs, religious activities in churches, mosques, shrines and at crusades, conventions, pilgrimages and other religious gatherings and travel to Ghana.
Full details here: https://newsghana.com.gh/police-enforcement-of-imposition-of-restrictions-to-stop-covid-19-spread/

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Type of Justification: Advice of INTERNAL government advisory committee or group
Source of Evidence or Justification: National – academic, National – government
Evidence/Justification: The Executive Instrument was passed to give a legal backing to earlier directives on restricted movement due to covid 19