Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as part of moves to combat the COVID-19 pandemic are due to hold a virtual extraordinary summit tomorrow, April, 23, 2020. A press release from the ECOWAS Commission and sighted by BestNewsGH.com read in part that ‘’Preceding this Extraordinary Summit, the Ministers in Charge of […]
President Akuffo Addo’s decision to lift a stay-at-home order in Greater Accra, Greater Kumasi and Tema at a time when transmission of the coronavirus has not been controlled has surprised many. These major cities were placed under a three-week lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. As of April 19, 2020, the day on […]
Ghana’s COVID-19 case count has reached One Thousand, One Hundred and Fifty Four (1154) according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The figure was disclosed by the Ghana Health Service at the regular press briefings on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. BestNewsGH.com reports the GHS as explaining that the country’s total recoveries from the virus currently […]
“It may be that you have come to the country at such a time like this. We are lucky, as a country, to have you as President at such a time as this. Your quote has been the quote of the year 2020, that you can bring the economy back to life but you cannot […]
Some Three Million (3, 000,000) Ghanaians are projected to catch the deadly COVID-19 virus, according Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, the President’s Advisor on Health. BestNewsGH.com reports him as positing during a live television interview that One Hundred and Fifty Thousand (150, 000) people out of the Three Million (3, 000,000), representing Five Percent (5%) will […]
The year 2020 is a year most of us looked forward to with a lot of enthusiasm. Apart from it being a leap year, it is also unique just like the years 1717, 1818, and 1919 which none of us experienced. It has an exceptional pattern. The first two digits of the year match the […]
The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Golf City in the Tema North District under the Meridian Ghana Conference on Monday 20th April 2020, distributed food items to its members to cushion them after the lifting of the three-week partial lockdown in the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan areas. The items include bags of rice, cooking oil […]
The fight at the frontlines of Covid-19 is being waged in clinics and hospitals around the world. But the success of that fight has, in large part, depended on the effectiveness of the healthcare systems in each country. So far, there’s been a noticeable correlation between a country’s ability to contain the virus and previous […]
Donald Trump has announced plans to ban immigration to the United States in a bid to ‘protect American jobs’ amid the coronavirus crisis. The US President tweeted on Monday: ‘In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be […]
The Dean of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Local Government, Dr Eric Oduro-Osae says the lifting of the ban on partial lockdown in the Covid-19 hotspots is timely and makes a lot of economic sense. He believed that the decision was based on data available to the President and the COVID-19 Response Team and, […]
Two Chinese doctors who were critically ill with COVID-19 have seen their skin turned dark after being brought back from the brink of death. Dr Yi Fan and Dr Hu Weifeng, both 42, caught the novel coronvirus while treating patients at the Wuhan Central Hospital in January. Their abnormal skin colour is caused by hormonal imbalances after […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the decision to lift the partial lockdown of Accra, Kumasi, Tema and Kasoa, was taken after a careful consideration of a number of factors. According to President Akufo-Addo, the country’s current capacity “to trace victims of this disease, being able to test, being able to […]
