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Dr. Justice Moses Aheto, Bio-statistician and Lecturer at the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Ghana has described the Ghana Health Service’ claim that Ghana has reached its peak of Covid-19 infections as flawed. According to him, the inference is not backed by substantial data and as such can’t be used to inform policy decisions. Director-General of the Ghana ...

The Heads of Christian Ecumenical Bodies in Ghana have issued guidelines to mitigate the spread of coronavirus when church reopens. The bodies that presented the guidelines included the Christian Council, the National Association of Charismatic and Christian Churches, Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Signing the mitigating guidelines were; Most Rev Dr Paul Boafo (Chairman, Christian Council of Ghana); Rev Prof Yaw ...

The new coronavirus can persist in men’s semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said Thursday. A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, in January and February. About 16% of them had ...

Kweku Baako Jnr is advocating for the reopening of some radio stations that have been closed down in the country. The Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper who was a popular figure on Radio Gold’s weekend political platform ‘Alhaji and Alhaji’ said even though some laws were violated by these media houses, “I think it’s about time amnesty” ...

The Ghana cedi has returned to the depreciation trajectory despite a strong performance in the first three-and-a-half months of this year. As of 6 May 2020, the cedi had declined in value by 1.18% to trade at GH¢5.600 to the US dollar on the interbank forex market and 2.36% to sell at GH¢5.93 on the interbank forex market. Currency analysts ...

The European Union has added 12 countries to its money-laundering blacklist, putting their financial transactions under greater scrutiny. They include Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and Zimbabwe. Others are Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Cambodia, Mongolia and Myanmar. Once approved by the European parliament the list will come into force in October. The commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said the EU needed to ...

Former Mp for sefwi wiawso constituency has today tour Chps compound and clinic’s such as Ahokwa chps, Datano chps, Nyameadiso clinic. He has to support curb COVID-19 pandemic in the country he donate PPE’s to the afore mentioned clinic and chps compound. These communities and it’s elders upon seeing Hon. Paul Evans Aidoo in their community they were happy and ...

The Association of Herbal Medicine in Ghana has expressed concerns over government’s plans to receive a supposed Covid-19 herbal cure from Madagascar. According to them, the health ministry has not given the necessary attention after presenting different types of herbal medicines aimed at fighting the virus. Speaking on Nkawkaw-based Agoo FM, President for the Association Nana Opam Kissi I known ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced power cuts in parts of Accra beginning, Friday, May 8, 2020. According to the ECG, the planned power outages is to enable the company to convey some transformers from the Tema Port to its Pokuase Bulk Supply Point (BSP) construction site. Tema, Klagon, Spintex, Trasacco, Dzorwulu, Achimota, and Ofankor, are some of ...

The Ghana Association of Medical Herbalists has submitted over thirty-three (33) drugs to the Ministry of Health (MoH) as possible medication to fight the novel coronavirus. The MoH has however delayed in the testing and approval processes of the drugs. President of the Ghana Association of Medical Herbalists, Dr. Anthony Mensah who was not happy about the delays made this ...