Ghana will extend a lockdown on the country’s two main cities for one week to help contain the spread of corona virus.

President NANA AKUFO-ADDO said the two-week restriction on movement around the capital Accra and in the Kumasi area would be prolonged from Monday for an additional week.

In a televised broadcast, President AKUFO-ADDO said Ghanaians should stay with the lockdown and bear with the difficulties that come with it. 

He added that the government would absorb the whole of the electricity bills of the poorest citizens and 50 percent for other residents and businesses for three months to ease the pain.

The country has so far registered 378 corona virus infections, with six deaths.