A powerful Nigerian fetish priest couldn’t hold back his tears as he cried mercilessly after he tested positive for the deadly coronavirus. The fetish priest whose name cannot be revealed due to security reasons was one of the people who were identified through contact tracing in Lagos, Nigeria. As reported by Nigerian authorities, the fetish […]
Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. This is the third time in the last ten (10) days that I have come into your homes to give you an update on the progress of our fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. I am going to be providing you regular updates. On Sunday, 15th March, I briefed you about the enhanced […]
President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced that the Ministry of Health is engaging the services of retired and new health professionals to augment that of its current staff as the country braces itself for a possible surge in the number of Coronavirus infections. Ghana as at 21:30 hours today [March 21, 2020] has confirmed 21 cases of […]
Idris Elba’s wife Sabrina Dhowre-Elba has tested positive with the coronavirus, a week after her husband. Defending their decision to isolate together following The Wire star’s diagnosis, she told Oprah Winfrey ‘I wanted to be with him’ and claimed she felt ‘the instinct of a wife’ to take care of him. In an interview on Winfrey’s new Apple […]
Retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales have been sent letters asking them to return to work to help fight against coronavirus. More than 65,000 retired NHS workers have been contacted by senior officials to join frontline workers at UK hospitals. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said some retired medics who return to work in […]
China’s prevention and control efforts have made important progress at this stage. In the nation of 1.4 billion people, the daily new confirmed cases keep dropping and most of them are imported from overseas. Hubei province reported zero new confirmed or suspected cases on March 18th. More than 87% of the 80,000 confirmed cases have […]
The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful has revealed that her husband, who recently returned from a trip to the United Kingdom to Ghana has quarantined himself as part of measures to help prevent the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). She said they serve him food by leaving it at the door to […]
Switzerland’s health care system could collapse by the end of the month if the new coronavirus keeps spreading at current rates, a government official warned on Tuesday. Swiss authorities estimated that 2,650 people had tested positive for the coronavirus and said 19 people had died, while predicting cases will likely soar in the weeks ahead. […]
The Canadian High Commission is the latest to shutdown its Ghana offices in the capital Accra, following the Coronavirus outbreak. “In doing our part to #flattenthecurve & prevent the spread of #COVID19, our offices are closed to the general public until further notice,” the High Commission posted on Twitter on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. It is gathered […]
The European Commission is planning to ban all non-essential travel throughout Europe’s Schengen free-travel zone as more countries close their borders to try to limit the spread of coronavirus. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she would ask leaders to implement the measures on Tuesday. “The less travel, the more we can contain the […]
Ashesi University is suspending classes effective Monday, March 16, 2020. This comes in the wake of the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the country. A notice from the school said “we are pausing all classes, effective immediately, until further notice.” The school’s definite decision comes after the government announced a new travel advisory […]
HUNDREDS of Hindu worshipers have sipped cups of cow urine in India in a bid to ward off the coronavirus. Members of a Hindu nationalist group hosted a party in Delhi yesterday where they drank the urine to combat Covid-19. Further gatherings are planned elsewhere in India. A vaccine is not yet available for the virus, […]
