Founder and Leader of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga is battling COVID-19. 

He is currently on life support with oxygen piped to his nose. 

According to reports, the 2020 Presidential candidate is currently in the Intensive Care Unit of a health facility (Name Withheld). 

Meanwhile, reports say he has regretted not taking the COVID-19 vaccine and has described the condition as “it’s like someone is suffocating you”. Hassan Ayariga ridiculed President Akufo-Addo went he first took a shot of the first AstraZeneca vaccine delivered to Ghana through the COVAX platform. 

He stated, “Ghana is the first country to take the vaccine, the president went and they gave him malaria vaccine and you call it corona vaccine, that was not corona vaccine. I’m sure he took malaria vaccine, that’s politics for you,” he claimed. 

“You see, we Africans we are dumb! A white man will never give you something good first when it is too good before himself, never. They have produced all those vaccines. 

Tell me, how many of these white countries have started taken the vaccine. Is it similar to what you are taking, they are testing their own and they are killing you,” he added. Ghana's covid-19 active cases has ballooned to 4,983. 

This was after 450 news cases were recorded. 

The Ghana Health Service recent update has confirmed. The cumulative case has hit 103,019 with 97,213 clinical recoveries since March 2020. 

The current death toll is 823. 

---with files from MyNewsGh