The Deputy communication director of the biggest opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Abuakwa north of the Eastern Region, Alhaji Abdul Wahab has called on President Akufo-Addo to lockdown Eastern Region immediately.

According to Abdul Wahab in the interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Eastern Region has now become a hotspot for the deadly Coronavirus since the president ordered the lockdown in some parts of the country.

“Since the president announce the lockdown in some part of the country a lot of people have moved to Eastern Region making the region hotspot for coronavirus. The option now is for the president to lockdown Eastern Region”, he told the host Awal Adams on Nopras FM.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday, March 27, declared a partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi, the epicenters of the coronavirus diseases in Ghana.

The decision, according to the President is to help curb the spread of COVID-19 which has led to five deaths and infected some 161 people.