41 Ghanaians stacked outside the country due to COVID-19 border closure have arrived back in Accra.
They touched down earlier on Saturday, June 6, 2020 at the Kotoko International Airport at 9:20am.
Majority of them were students who went on an exchange program sponsored by the US, Citinewsroom reports
However, the evacuees are in a hotel in Accra, as they begin a two-week mandatory quarantine.
Meanwhile, Government expect two more contingents from Burkina Faso and Turks and Caicos
“The exchange program was supposed to be for ten months. So we were supposed to come back on June 8,” one of the students told Citi News. “But we left our various states on June 3 and then we went to the USA to stay overnight and then we left.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration had already announced plans by the government to evacuate stranded Ghanaians from foreign countries.
Sector Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway said Nigeria, Mauritania, Ethiopia, China, United States of America, United Kingdom and UAE are some of the countries captured on the schedule.
She said negotiations are already underway to evacuate some 675 Ghanaians who are currently stranded in China.
Source: Pulse.com.gh
