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Four passengers onboard a commercial bus from Ghana’s capital city of Accra en route to Takoradi have been advised to self-quarantine due to high temperatures, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Health Director, Dr Kofi Sutherland has disclosed. His revelation follows after an Emergency Response Team set up by the Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah to screen people entering Takoradi from Kumasi and ...

Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC has presented products to support government’s campaign to check the spread of the deadly COVID 19. The 1,500 packs of Malta Guinness were handed over to the Ministry of Information and received by the sector minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on behalf of government at a ceremony in Accra on Sunday, 29th March 2020. Presenting the items, ...

COVID19 is here to assess the impact of the much taunted planting for food and jobs policy, critical conditions Iike the current COVID19 is the reason why every responsible leader should plan and think of the next generation but not the next elections, and therefore get things done appropriately, devoid of lies and propaganda. The planting for food and job ...

The Eastern Regional House of Chiefs has suspended the hearing of all customary judicial cases before the Judicial Committee of the House for one month due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the country. A statement issued and signed by Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Pannin – President of the Eastern Regional House further stated that “all funerals, one ...

Accra and Kumasi have gone quiet and empty as the partial lockdown announced by President Akufo-Addo takes effect. The President ordered the lockdown as part of moves to limit the spread of coronavirus in Ghana. Below is a summary of the Restrictions Imposed on Selected Areas in Ghana by Government for 2 weeks. Ghana’s COVID-19 cases have jumped to 152 ...

Residents in the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs have Friday, March 27, to remember as a day on which indiscipline attitudes were met with radical responses from personnel of the Ghana Army during the turn of the metropolis for disinfection of markets there in the wake of the spread of the coronavirus disease to the country. Traders and others were ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress and former President John Mahama have donated items to the Ridge Hospital for the fights against the global pandemic – Coronavirus. The Items included PPEs for the frontline workers and food items as well as water. The Ridge Hospital is one of the dedicated centres for the virus in Ghana. Ghana’s COVID-19 cases have jumped ...

Ghana is to rely on drones to easily carry across blood and other essential products in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. A new testing centre has also been created at Tamale where ten new cases of the virus have been confirmed, Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu has disclosed. “We have now created a quarantine centre at Tamale and this ...

Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Minister of Information, on Sunday said the executive arm of government that is those exempted from the government COVID-19 restrictions also includes heads of government institutions, appointees and special assistants. He advised all the exempted person who fall into the stated categories go to work with their staff identity cards to show at security points ...

Families rushed up and down gathering foodstuff and other provisions. Unending queues stood at gas filling stations. Everybody prepared for a partial lockdown in Greater Accra Region and Greater Kumasi metropolitan areas as part of collective precautionary measures the President, H.E. William Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced recently to fight the spread of the novel COVID-19 pandemic. The nation looks ...