As part of the country’s efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Aviation (MoA) and Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) on Monday December 14, 2020, begun the third phase of disinfection at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
The two-hour exercise covered facilities at Terminal 1 and 2 and all its open spaces. These facilities included restaurants, washrooms, arrival and departure halls, tarmac among others.
Briefing journalists earlier, General Manager (GM) of Vector Control Services of ZGL, Rev. Ebenezer Kwame Addae, said the exercise was to augment the quarterly disinfections at the country’s airports and keep them safe for users.
“We are carrying out these regular disinfection exercises at the country’s airports to keep them safe from the Covid, and also repose confidence in passengers travelling in and outside the country,” he said.
On why the disinfection was done in the evening, he explained it was to avoid interruptions in the activities of the airport authorities.
According to Rev. Addae, Covid-19 was real, and that there was no need for the country to lose its guard in its quest to fight the virus.
“Any complacency in the fight against the virus will cost the nation. And that is something we must strongly guard against,” he urged.
In addition to the quarterly disinfection, he said the airport authorities at KIA also had a programme where they do dusting and disinfection on a daily basis.
“They also strictly enforce all the Covid-19 protocols at the airport,” he added.
The GM of Vector Control Services, ZGL, indicated all these were part of an integrated approach employed by his outfit and government to match the virus “boot for boot.”
Rev. Addae however, disclosed KIA Terminal 3 which deals with international flights will take its turn of the disinfection on midnight of Wednesday, December 16, 2020.
“We will be doing Terminal 3 on Wednesday, [December 16, 2020] at 12:00 midnight, which time will allow us space to disinfect all its facilities,” he said.
Disinfection equipment deployed for the exercise included loads of knapsack sprayers, three foggers, two mechanical sweepers and one atomiser.
It would be recalled that the third phase of airport disinfection begun on Friday, December 11, 2020 at the Kumasi Airport. The exercise formed part of the government’s commitment to curb the spread of Covid-19.
