Peter Mac Manu, the campaign manager for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2020 general elections and Carlos Ahenkorah, a Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry have been admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after allegedly testing positive for COVID-19. According to reports gathered by GhanaWeb, many government officials have tested […]
Fellow Ghanaians, good evening, and thank you for having me in your homes, once again. Two weeks ago, we begun the reopening of our schools, as part of the phased approach to bring our nation back to normalcy, following the outbreak of the novel COVID-19 disease in our country. Since that time, final year University students, SHS […]
The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR) will from July 1, this year embark on a nationwide random inspection of offices, shops and factories. This is to ensure strict compliance with and enforcement of all COVID-19 protocols and guidelines outlined by government, the World Health Organisation and the Ghana Health Services. A statement issued […]
Mr Philemon Kwame Ankomah, Chief Information Security Officer with the Bank of Africa has revealed that Zoom conferencing has been the biggest winner following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic across the globe. He said the pandemic has forced almost everybody to conduct meetings and business engagements via online platforms such as Zoom. He revealed […]
The Ghana Electrical Dealers Association (GEDA) on Wednesday engaged Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) to disinfect its business space at Opera Square, Accra, also known as Cowlane. The exercise, which started around 7:00 a.m., saw ZGL deploy one of its boom atomisers together with a disinfection crew with knapsack spraying machines to disinfect the area. The […]
Biological brother of the Kwadaso SDA Hospital Medical Doctor who died of COVID-19, is rumoured to have also died of the virus, on Sunday, June 21. The sad incident comes barely a week after it was confirmed his younger brother, Dr Harry Owusu Boateng, died of COVID-19. The 48-year-old Medical Doctor died at home on Saturday, June […]
A recovered COVID-19 patient, Fred Drah, has called for the intensification of public education on the virus to quell the stigma increasingly associated with the disease. Drah, who is 51 years old, bemoaned the way in which people who, like himself, have recovered from the virus, is being treated. He says if this trend is […]
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 […]
The Peoples’ National Convention (PNC) is calling on the Electoral Commission to rethink its decision to compile a new voters register for the 2020 elections. The Party, in a statement signed by its National Chairman Bernard Mornah said the fact that the Minister for Health, the Hon, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has tested positive for the […]
Dr Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, the Director of Labour Research and Policy Institute, Trades Union Congress (TUC), has called on government to develop a comprehensive stimulus package for businesses and workers. He said the package would enable businesses, small and large, to stay afloat and maintain their workforce in these difficult periods. Dr Otoo said enterprises […]
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has declared the country “coronavirus-free” thanks to prayers by citizens. “The corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,” Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma. The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government’s strategy on Covid-19. The government has stopped publishing data on […]
