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COVID-19: 122 new cases confirmed; national tally now 5,530

122 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ghana shooting the national tally to 5,530, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Badu Sarkodie has revealed. According to the Ghana Health Service, the recovery rate has also risen to 674. The death tally is still at 24, the GHS director said Thursday. Meanwhile, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) and ...

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98-year-old woman recovers from Coronavirus in Lagos

A 98-year-old woman was reportedly discharged in Lagos today May 13, after recovering from Coronavirus. Lagos State Government on Wednesday announced that a 98-year-old woman has recovered from coronavirus after treatment at one of the state’s facilities. “Today, we discharged a 98-year-old woman, our oldest #COVID19 patient in Lagos,” Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu tweeted. The 98-year-old woman, Sanwo-Olu said, ...

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Coronavirus: Nurse at Tamale Hospital arrested for organising baby’s naming ceremony

A nurse at the Tamale Teaching Hospital has been apprehended for flouting social distancing rules to organise a naming ceremony. The male nurse, Muniru Mohammed Saani, is said to have held the naming ceremony for his one-week-old baby on Wednesday. However, he was arrested at his home by some police officers while the ceremony was ongoing. Dailymailgh reports that the ...

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‘Sleeping while black’: Family seeks justice for Breonna Taylor, killed in her bedroom by police

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT worker in Louisville, Ky., was shot in her bed after midnight on March 13 by three police officers serving a “no-knock warrant,” becoming another statistic in the long list of African-Americans killed at the hands of police. What makes the case unusual is that Taylor was a woman. And, of course, she was asleep. The ...

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Stardom saved me from armed robbers – Sunsum

Kumawood actor, Yaw Adu, popularly known as Sunsum, has said being a star saved him from an armed robbery attack. The actor was speaking on Accra100.5FM’s Ayeeko Ayeeko Show on Monday, May 11, 2020. Describing who a star is in his own opinion, the actor told the show host, Nana Romeo that, “When a star is passing, people follow him ...

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LIVESTREAMING: Ministry of Information press briefing on coronavirus

The Ministry of Information will hold another edition of its press briefing series to provide an update to citizens on the next mitigating measures in Ghana’s fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The sharp spike in Ghana’s case count continues to spark a debate and concerns over whether the country has reached its ‘peak’ as earlier announced by the Ghana Health Service. However ...

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Kofi Kinaata is exceptional – Okyeame Kwame

Ghanaian musician Okyeame Kwame has showered praises on Kofi Kinaata for what he described as an amazing and unique way of writing “deep” lyrics for his songs. In a Twitter post, Okyeame Kwame predicted that Kinaata will be a great inspiration to the next generation According to him, he fell in love with Kinaata’s craft after listening to “Adam and ...

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Ghana’s dancing pallbearers find new fame during COVID-19

The Nana Otafrija pallbearers might look slick, but they are not afraid to get dirty. Their signature moves, carried out with a coffin in tow, include dropping to all-fours and crawling in unison; or lying on their backs, the coffin balanced on top of them, legs moving in time to the music – as though they have been crushed by ...

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