This article explores Ghana’s preventive measures for stemming the spread of the COVID-19 disease among its population and the socio-economic impact of these measures in urban marketplaces. It argues that Ghana’s COVID-19 approach in marketplaces was characterised by (1) improving hygiene conditions through disinfection of all markets, (2) closing down markets to enforce social distancing among traders, and (3) imposing a lockdown to decongest densely populated marketplaces. Yet the micro-geographies of Ghana’s marketplaces complicated the implementation of these preventive measures. The socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in marketplaces were evident in the increased food prices, the economic hardships associated with the lockdown directive, and the forceful relocation and decongestion exercises to enforce social distancing among traders. The hostile nature with which municipal authorities implemented the COVID-19 preventive measures in marketplaces is akin to how they sought to decongest inner cities prior to the emergence of COVID-19.

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探索 COVID-19 大流行对加纳城市市场的社会经济影响

本文探讨了加纳为阻止 COVID-19 疾病在其人口中传播而采取的预防措施，以及这些措施对城市市场的社会经济影响。它认为，加纳在市场上采用 COVID-19 方法的特点是（1）通过对所有市场进行消毒来改善卫生条件，（2）关闭市场以加强交易者之间的社交距离，以及（3）实施封锁以疏散人口稠密的市场. 然而，加纳市场的微观地理环境使这些预防措施的实施变得复杂。COVID-19 大流行对市场的社会经济影响在食品价格上涨、与封锁指令相关的经济困难、以及强有力的搬迁和疏散演习，以加强交易者之间的社交距离。市政当局在市场上实施 COVID-19 预防措施的敌对性质类似于他们在 COVID-19 出现之前寻求缓解内城拥堵的方式。