GSJ: Volume 8, Issue 6, June 2020, Online: ISSN 2320-9186
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Assessing the Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Partial Lockdown of Cities onAccess to
Social Facilities
Wahab Musah-Abdul
1*
John Amoah-Nuamah
2
Lord Ebow Sampson
3
1. Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology, PMB
KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
2. Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Cape Coast, PMB, Cape
Coast, Ghana
3. Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Cape Coast, PMB, Cape
Coast, Ghana
* E-mail of the corresponding author: wahab_musahabdul@yahoo.com
Abstract
Social facility is very useful for societal interaction and cohesion. This study was based on
review of literature to assess the effects of Novel Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic lockdown of cities
on social facility. The study revealed that maternal mortality rate would increase, Christians and
Muslims routine of worship as a group has been mileage, whiles people are not able to engage in
active exercise to keep fit as a result of the lockdown of the cities. The paper recommend that
Government and management of cities should provide mobile clinic for pregnant and patients at
house to house. This will help to prevent unforeseen deaths of pregnant women and patients with
underlining sickness.
Keywords: Covid-19, Lockdown, Social Facility, Cities, Ghana
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