President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Nigeria Customs Service to release for immediate distribution, bags of rice seized from smugglers. ALSO READ: Tema polyclinic nurse tests positive for coronavirus Korle Bu doctors and nurses threaten strike Government to pay 3 months water bill for Ghanaians This directive is part of the palliative measures by the … Read more
The Tema West Municipal Health Directorate is asking for support for health workers at Tema Polyclinic, following a confirmed Covid-19 case at the facility. A Community Nurse who occasionally visits Tema Polyclinic as part of her routine work, tested positive to the disease on Friday and is currently recovering at home. The nurse, believed to be in … Read more
Rapper Sarkodie, CEO of Sarkcess Music, says he is willing to pay anything in order to bring back his fellow musician and brother, Pappy Kojo back into the country (Ghana). Due to the novel coronavirus, Pappy Kojo has been stuck in Italy for over a month now because there’s a nationwide lockdown. READ OTHER STORIES … Read more
All Ghanaians will not be paying water bill for the next three (3) months as government will absorb all the cost. President Akufo-Addo in his televised address to the nation announced that for the months of April, May and June, his government is taking that burden off Ghanaians. “All water tankers, publicly and privately-owned, are … Read more
Doctors at the Department of Accident and Emergency at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital threatened to lay down their tools over the supposed lack of COVID-19 preparedness by the hospital. “We write to express our general dissatisfaction with the preparedness or lack thereof of the department to combat the current COVID-19 pandemic. We also wish to … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced a tax holiday for health workers in the country for the next three (3) months beginning April 2020. The President made this known during his fifth national address today, Sunday, April 5, 2020, where he updated Ghanaians on the fight against the spread of the novel Coronavirus disease in the … Read more
Akufo-Addo indicated that his government will determine whether or not to extend the lockdown imposed on parts of the country next week. He said, the decision will largely be based on the results of the over 19,000 tests that have been conducted due to the enhanced contact tracing exercise. Other stories President Nana Akuffo-Addo extends … Read more
About 804 individuals who were part of 1,030 travellers in mandatory quarantine have joined their families, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. The remaining 121 he said, are in the process of being released. “I want to thank all of them and their families and loved ones for their understanding and co-operation with the stringent procedures … Read more
Professor Abraham Kwabena Anang, the director at the Noguchi Memorial Medical Institute has revealed that Ghana may have a drug that will help in the treatment of Coronavirus. Speaking to a section of the media he said that a drug called COA FS which is a locally manufactured immune booster can work effectively against Coronavirus. … Read more
Fresh details concerning the first person to be confirmed COVID-19 positive in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region indicate that the patient had spent a week in the Western Region before moving to the Upper East. The patient, a 33-year-old woman, had no history of travel outside Ghana nor contact with any of the other … Read more