ABSTRACT
The lockdown policy had varied impacts on different countries during the surge of the coronavirus pandemic. Responses by the Ghanaian citizenry toward the lockdown policy and bottlenecks during implementation in Ghana’s case were quite dissimilar to other countries’ around the world. This research uses a qualitative research approach and literature sources to discuss the impact of the lockdown policy on the people of Ghana during the surge of Covid-19 in the country. As an applied historical study, it closes with an important question: Could lockdowns have been avoided? The available evidence demonstrates that the government of Ghana could have applied lockdown measures with a greater degree of understanding of the societal context. It could have taken multiple approaches that safeguarded the social and economic interests and well-being of the overall population, instead of utlising one-size-fits-all Chinese and or Western-oriented prescriptions.
