Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria.
The team in Kenya and the United Kingdom say the finding...
Ghana has now recorded 2,719 coronavirus cases, the Ghana Health Service has confirmed.
The Greater Accra region has recorded 480 new Covid-19 cases bringing the...
All seven Covid-19 patients being attended to at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital have been treated and discharged.
According to Chief executive Officer of the country’s...
A mother-of-three nurse has died of coronavirus just two years before retirement after spending nearly 40 years on the job.
Indian-born Philomina Cherian, 63, died...
Celebrated media personality, entrepreneur, staunch Made-in-Ghana product campaigner and Public Relations practitioner, Kobi Hemaa Osisiadan-Bekoe, on May 1, 2020, reached out to three communities...
Eighty-eight per cent of the 2,169 confirmed COVID-19 patients have “no clear travel history”, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
Only 12 per cent...
Tanzania’s parliament has been hit by a covid-19 scare after three parliamentarians died of unknown causes in the past 11 days.
On Friday, Augustine Mahiga, 74, Tanzania’s...
Nigeria has accepted to be part of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) solidarity trial of vaccines for coronavirus.
So far, more than 100 countries have joined...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned against the use of unapproved nose masks that had flooded markets across the country.
Consequently, it has...
Before the coronavirus outbreak, Dr Lindy Fox, a dermatologist in San Francisco, used to see four or five patients a year with chilblains — painful red...
Doctors in the UK have shared their fears over 250 ventilators purchased from China and called for their 'withdrawal and replacement'.
Medical experts from the Sandwell and...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now given emergency approval for the drug remdesivir to be used for coronavirus treatment.
US President Donald Trump who...
Following the outbreak of the pandemic, coronavirus (COVID 19), President Nana Akufo-Addo has directed all citizens to wear nose masks while going out of...
Sudan has criminalised carrying out Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), making it punishable by three years in jail.
Some 87% of Sudanese women aged between 14...
The Reproductive Health Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has resumed its cervical cancer screening campaign but by appointments to prevent overcrowding at the...
Parliament has approved a GH¢288.6 million tax waiver for healthcare workers to motivate them in the fight against Covid-19.
The tax waiver is on personal...
The Tamale Teaching Hospital has commenced testing of Covid-19 samples for Northern, Savannah, Upper West, Upper East and North East regions in Tamale in...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that it is very worried about the rate of community spread of Covid-19 in West Africa.
The regional head of...
A personal trainer claims she is fighting off coronavirus by drinking smoothies containing her boyfriend's sperm.
Tracy Kiss, 32, reckons that the refreshing drinks that...
The Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has outlined some of the trials going on for Covid-19 treatment and vaccination in Africa.
Fifty-two countries have...
A slump in condom sales suggests Brits are shying away from sex during the lockdown.
Laxman Narasimhan, the chief of Durex's parent company Reckitt Benckiser,...
The boss of Reckitt Benckiser, which owns Durex condoms, has said people are having less sex because of the coronavirus crisis.
Laxman Narasimhan said condom...
About 110 people including staff of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have been quarantined after a patient tested positive for coronavirus at the facility.
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