Ghana's parliament will suspend sittings for three weeks due to increasing coronavirus cases among lawmakers and staff,
Speaker ALBAN BAGBIN announced that the number of MPs who have contracted the virus has risen to 17 while that of staff has gone up to 151.
He said sittings would resume on the 2nd of March.
But parliament's appointments committee would from February 10 continue with the scheduled vetting of cabinet nominees of President NANA AKUFO-ADDO, who won re-election in December.
Ghana has reported 72,328 infections and 472 coronavirus-related deaths, some of the highest totals in West Africa.
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