The Auditor General of Ghana carried out a special audit on the Government of Ghana’s COVID-19 transactions for the period March 2020 to June 2022 in accordance with the statutory mandate under Article 187 of the 1992 Constitution.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020, and Ghana recorded its first two cases on 12 March 2020. As a result, the President of Ghana formed a task force to develop a strategy to ensure that the Country was not overwhelmed by the pandemic. The strategy assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy
of Ghana and designed measures to address its immediate impact.