Two (2) members of Ghana’s Parliament and thirteen (13) parliamentary service staff have tested positive for COVID-19. This came to light after the speaker of Parliament, Professor Michael Aaron Ocquaye encouraged members of the House and staff to voluntarily test for the virus. The identities of the 2 MP’s have not been disclosed yet. BestNewsGH.com […]
Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has approved essential travel for South Africans who want to return to countries where they are based. The decision, made after consultations with the department of international relations & co-operation and the national coronavirus command council, was announced on Saturday. Many South Africans who work or live overseas and were […]
Volta Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police Edward Oduro Kwarteng has called on police personnel in the region not to be complacent as the novel COVID-19 is a killer and can infect everyone. For that reason, he stressed that it was about time Ghanaians came to terms with the reality of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic. […]
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 […]
Second Deputy Speaker, Alban Bagbin is calling for the display of dead bodies resulting from COVID-19 on media platforms like Television to enforce the message that the disease is real. According to him, the call is backed by the feedback he has received from the public on the disease. Contributing to deliberations on the floor […]
As the hospitality industry has been badly hit by the global pandemic, the plush Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City Accra is of no exception. About 10 out of the 269 rooms available in the hotel are mostly utilized, the General Manager of the hotel, Manish Nambiar has indicated. He also confirmed to GhanaWeb that the […]
A Cameroonian Pastor has died of COVID-19. Pastor Frankline Ndifor contracted the virus after laying hands on patients who tested positive for the virus in an attempt to heal them. The pastor, according to BestNewsGH.com sources shot to prominence after he claimed he could deliver anyone suffering from the novel virus which has been declared […]
Members of the Cross River state Covid-19 taskforce disrupted a wedding that was in session at the Christ Apostolic Church in Calabar, the state capital on Saturday May 16. The state government banned public gathering as part of efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19. A video shared online shows the would-be couple and their guests […]
Health Care workers in Belgium are angry with the country’s Prime Minister, Sophie Wilmes for her government’s poor handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Euronews.com reports that the health care workers turned their backs on the Prime Minister as her convoy arrived at a hospital in the country’s capital, Brussels. BestNewsGH.com can report that medical and […]
Adviser to President Akufo-Addo on Health matters, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare has revealed that an additional 1000 recoveries from the COVID-19 virus will be announced in the ensuing days. On Friday May 15 2020, the country recorded 1,460 recoveries, from an initial 670 recoveries which was announced. The announcement of the 1,460 recoveries however generated […]
President Akufo-Addo has joined a long list of leaders across the globe who have penned their signatures down to make the Coronavirus vaccine, when obtained, available to all persons regardless of their class, social status or race. The global agreement letter put out by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS) was to help make […]
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 […]
