Following the announcement by His Excellency the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 27th March 2020 which restricted movement of persons resident in Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi and subsequent measures on Social Distancing in public transport services, some public transport service providers withdrew their services making access to public transport very difficult.

The Ministry of Transport in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Greater Accra Passenger Transport Executive (GAPTE) therefore met to discuss modalities to provide transport services to the general public and health workers within the affected areas.

This was to address the difficulties, especially for essential health workers (nurses, midwives, doctors, and other health workers), to go through before getting to their workplace due to the restriction of movement.

The buses for essential health workers would run on specified routes at specific times within Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi. The identified routes are as follows: