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 […]
Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, is utterly shocked by a new study that indicates nicotine could prevent infection and serious illness from coronavirus. A recent French study has indicated that nicotine is helpful in guarding against coronavirus, functioning as an anti-inflammatory agent that kills the virus. Nicotine is a stimulant and alkaloid […]
A new bill seeks to dramatically increase financial relief for struggling American families amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic by extending the government’s stimulus checks months after the crisis is over. The Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act, introduced Friday by Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), would provide a monthly $2,000 check to every person with an […]
There was a raging debate over whether or not Ghana needs a new voters’ register in the upcoming December elections until the Electoral Commission (EC) put things to rest by confirming April 18, 2020, as the date for the compilation of a new voters’ register to begin. The EC’s plans has been derailed with COVID-19 arriving at […]
Former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, says it doesn’t make sense for the Vice President to compare Ghana’s power crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to him, it is totally out of place to compare a crisis which only caused social discomfort to another which is claiming lives. The handling of the coronavirus pandemic has […]
The first person to test positive for the novel coronavirus in the Bono Region is a Togolese national who entered the country illegally, the Regional Minister has revealed. This forms part of the 372 new cases that brought the country’s tally to 3,091 as announced by the Ghana Health Service May 7, 2020. The new case detected […]
The Japan branch of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has lauded Ghana’s Ambassador to Japan, H.E. Frank Okyere for the various initiatives he has rolled out in the quest to quell the spread of COVID-19. A statement issued by the branch and signed by Mr. Kwaku Adu, the Acting Communications Director and in the […]
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 […]
The Chief of Tabre, a community near Jamasi in the Ashanti region, Nana Amoakohene II, with support from some of his elders including Obaapanyin, Nana Achiaa II, Abusuapanin Kwabena Sarpong and the entire Asona Family of Tabre have donated food items worth GHC 15, 000 as a token to the people of Tabre in these […]
The Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) has been caught up in severe conflict of interest and clear sabotage regarding the implementation of disinfection prevention measures at the Airports of Ghana. The GACL led by its Managing Director, Mr. Yaw Kwakwa, which is to give clearance for LCB Worldwide Limited to disinfect KIA as per a […]
EXIM Bank Ghana is collaborating with Entrance Pharmaceuticals and Research Centre, a member of the Tobinco Group of Companies, to produce hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin locally for the management of COVID-19 cases. The bank said it was ready to advance a $5 million facility to the company for the production of the drugs locally. COVID-19 patients […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have named their newborn son Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson, it was announced on Saturday. The baby was born Wednesday, and was given the middle name Nicholas in honor of two doctors who treated Boris Johnson while he suffered from coronavirus last month. “Wilfred after Boris’ grandfather, Lawrie after my grandfather, […]
