Sex Workers, Clients, Not Observing Social Distancing Protocols

The social distancing protocols that experts have been advocating as a crucial measure against the spread of the deadly coronavirus are not being practised by sex workers and their clients in Accra, Whatsup News gathered.

Popular red-light districts in the national capital, including Circle, Lapaz, Odorkor and East Legon continue to buzz with night business as prostitutes and clients engage openly in the streets in intimate haggles and without personal protective equipment.

Investigations by WhatsUp News confirm that people are still having commercial sex amidst the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.

As if oblivious to the danger all around, pleasure-seekers and prostitutes continue to hobnob in these whore markets at night for prepaid sex.

Investigations also show that it is not only the sex workers and their clients who are living dangerously in these red light districts, traders in alcoholic beverages, aphrodisiacs and condoms, along with food vendors also freely commingle in the sex markets.

It is not clear whether law enforcement agencies have simply ignored these night markets, but in the past, even in times when there was no pandemic to deal with, the Police have occasionally swooped these whore markets and arrested prostitutes.

Under the laws of Ghana, prostitution is an offence.

Incidentally, sex workers in the country tend to have patrons among expatriates as the first cases of Covid-19 in Ghana were as a result of “importation” by expatriates.

So far, some 132 coronavirus infections have been confirmed and at least 96% of the infected are people who flew in from abroad.

There have also been four deaths so far.