The discovery of the common steroid dexamethasone as a treatment for coronavirus has been hailed as a “major breakthrough” but a Ghanaian Physician Anesthesiologist has warned against self-medicating the cheap and widely available drug. Having been available for decades, relatively cheap and readily available, Dr Nana Dadzie Ghansah of the Anesthesia Associates of Lexington says even […]
The chief executive officer of the National Health Insurance Authority, Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby, has tested positive for COVID-19, Asaaseradio.com can report. Dr Dsane-Selby, who is currently in self-isolation, told Caroline Sampson that she got to know her status on Sunday. She was speaking in an interview on her Ten-To-One show on Asaase Radio 99.5 on Tuesday. She said she has since reached out to […]
As part of measures to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Acting Director of the National Sports College (NSC), Winneba in the Central Region, Mr Noah Bukari, has stated that the college has set up an isolation centre to manage any person suspected to have contracted the virus. “Any suspected case of Covid-19 […]
Ghana’s Covid-19 case count has increased by 176 to 9,638, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said. On its Covid-19 website, the Service indicated that 44 people so far have lost their lives to the novel virus in the country whereas 3,636 have recovered from the disease. Greater Accra still leads the other regions with […]
All the 245 Ghanaians evacuated from Kuwait have tested negative for the coronavirus, Director for Media and Communication for operation COVID Safety, Osei Bonsu Dickson has said. This should calm the nerves of some Ghanaians who worried that by allowing them into the country, Ghana could record more cases of the disease. But Mr. Dickson who is also […]
Drugs giant AstraZeneca has announced it is ready to provide a potential new coronavirus vaccine from September. The firm said it had concluded deals to deliver at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, which it is developing with Oxford University. AstraZeneca said it was capable of producing one billion doses of the AZD1222 vaccine […]
108 more people have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus in Ghana, bringing the number of total confirmed case to 5,638. 44 of the 108 new cases were recorded in Accra, 26 in the Western Region, 16 in the Central Region and 12 from the Northern Region. The remaining 10 cases, however, were recorded in the Ashanti […]
Legal Practitioner and politician, Mr. Sulley Sambian says Ghana’s handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic has been very proactive. According to the North East Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), this is evidenced by the commendations that are pouring in from across the globe. The NPP North East Regional scribe described Ghana;s current […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the generality of the Ghanaian people to eat foods that will boost their immune systems in order to help them fight off the COVID-19 Virus. These foods according to the president include dawadawa, kontomire, crabs, plantain, brown rice and okro. The president who made the suggestion during his […]
Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. It has been eight (8) weeks since our nation embarked on a co-ordinated, enhanced response towards combating the Coronavirus pandemic, after we recorded our first two (2) confirmed cases. We have taken the necessary measures of aggressively tracing, testing, isolating and treating infected persons and their contacts, as a means of […]
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says over 500 of the 921 new Covid-19 cases recorded on May 8, 2020, are from an industrial facility in the country. Ghana has recorded 921 new cases of the disease which has resulted in the national tally shooting to 4,012 in just 24 hours. The new cases have left […]
The number of novel coronavirus cases in Ghana has risen to 3,091, latest figures from the Ghana Health Service reveal. This represents a jump of 372 new infections from the last update. A new case detected in the Jaman North District makes Bono Region the 13th region to record a case. The Service’s website also […]
