The Ministry of Aviation (MoA) and Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) are leaving nothing to chance in their efforts to ensure the country’s airports are safe and secure amid the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
It is in light of the above that the two-state entities engaged waste management and disinfection expert Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) to undertake a massive disinfection exercise at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
The two-hour exercise was carried out from Thursday, January 14 at around 11:30 p.m. to Friday, January 15, 1:30 a.m., and was to help rid the airport of COVID-19 tendencies.
All facets of the airport, including its open spaces. were thoroughly disinfected. In addition, the Zoomlion disinfection crew sprayed all touchable surfaces and gadgets at the airport.
Speaking to the media, Head of Vector Control Unit-Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Reverend Ebenezer Kwame Addae, explained that the KIA disinfection had been necessitated by the new wave of the virus.
“It has become necessary for us to reinforce the disinfection exercise, looking at the new wave of COVID-19. The beginning is very, very important, but the ending is crucial; so, therefore, we are not relenting in our efforts to ensure the success we have chalked up so far continues,” he assured.
According to him, even though the KIA authorities have their own internal COVID-19 mechanisms and protocols, the disinfection exercise was to further augment their efforts in ensuring safety at the airport.
He noted that Ghana’s first COVID-19 cases were imported, recounting that they came through the airport.
Against this backdrop, Reverend Addae emphasised the need for his company [Zoomlion] to increase its presence at airports through disinfections: “So that it will calm all nerves coming through the airport.”
He added that disinfection is one of the potent weapons in their arsenal for combatting this malignant virus.
“We all know that COVID-19 is real and the speed at which it is taking the lives of people at the global level; we, as a middle-income country, need to position ourselves well so our human capital is not derailed,” Rev Addae urged.
“That is why we have met here to reinforce our monthly disinfection we started last month and be able to beef-up the activity of disinfection; because, per the WHO, the first step to combat this virus is disinfection,” he said.
The Zoomlion Vector Control Unit boss also indicated that his outfit is leaving no stone unturned in ensuring the fight against the pandemic is won.
Later, he mentioned that though the previous disinfectant used by the company was potent, it is now using a WHO-recommended disinfectant that has high residual activity and can last longer.
“Higher residual activity in the sense that it can take 26 to 28 days before its active ingredients will be less,” he explained further.
Rev Addae hinted that the Ministry of Aviation, which oversees activities of the country’s airports, has taken steps to engage Zoomlion Ghana Limited to disinfect on a monthly basis; adding that the ongoing disinfection exercise will be replicated in Kumasi and Tamale as well.
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