Health authorities in Ghana on Thursday said vaccination against COVID-19 is now mandatory for international travellers before entering the country as part of efforts to control the spread of the disease. The directive takes effect Sunday, 12 December 2021 at the only international airport in the capital, Accra, the Ghana Health Service said in a statement. “All persons 18 […]
The Country Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Francis Kasolo, has made a passionate appeal to members of the public to avail themselves to be vaccinated. He also urged the public to continue to adhere to the safety protocols which were effective against the new COVID-19 variant, the Omicron. His appeal comes on […]
The ECOWAS Commission in collaboration with the West African health Organisation (WAHO) is organising a Sectoral Ministers virtual meeting on the reopening of land borders in the region to facilitate the free movement of persons. In a statement issued by the regional body on December 3, 2021, it said Sectorial Ministers in charge of Regional […]
Ghana has detected the Omicron variant at its borders, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, has disclosed. He revealed that the virus was detected in persons travelling from Nigeria and South Africa into the country. He made the revelation at the launch of December as Covid-19 month. At […]
From January next year, the police will inspect the vaccination cards of all commercial drivers and motorbike riders to ensure that they have taken the COVID-19 shot. Additionally, workers of all government institutions and health facilities will not be allowed into their workplaces if they do not show their vaccination certificates, while absence from work […]
The Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Damien Punguyire, has appealed to the people in the region to avail themselves of the ongoing yellow fever vaccination exercise in the area for the sake of the health of the public. He said although the exercise was aimed at protecting people from the high yellow […]
A new research, conducted by WaterAid, an NGO, has found out that sanitation workers have been forgotten as frontline workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The research, carried out in South Asia, Burkina Faso and Nigeria, also found out that many of the sanitation workers in developing countries had been forgotten, underpaid, unprotected […]
The Acting Head of the Disease Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Dennis Laryea says door handles at public places do not necessarily spread COVID-19 infection. He said some members of the public used their elbows to open doors at public places, insisting that “Don’t worry about touching door handles, what you do after […]
If you are fully vaccinated in Ghana you are now ok to enter the United Kingdom (UK) without the hassle Ghanaians have gotten used to under Covid-19. It means Ghanaians travelling to the UK will no longer have to do day 8 test or be quarantined for 10 days. This follows the removal of 47 countries and […]
The government is expecting more than 18 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the coming days to augment the national fight against the virus. The expected consignment will comprise 1,330,270 doses of Pfizer from the US government through COVAX; 834,729 doses of AstraZeneca from the governments of UK, Denmark, Norway and the European Union […]
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS),Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has said the decline in COVID-19 infections provides the government a window to speed up with vaccinations to ensure that more people are protected against any future surge in infections. “There is a surge in the availability of vaccines and persons vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalised, so this is the […]
The United States Government is to donate 1.3 million Pfizer vaccines to Ghana to aid the national plan to inoculate 20 million Ghanaians by the end of the year. The gesture would add to the 1.2 million Moderna shots received by Ghana from the United States on September 4, 2021. US Vice President Kamala Harris […]
