Health

Coronavirus: Mothers giving children sanitisers to drink

Some mothers in one of the states in Nigeria are using unconventional ways to protect their children from the deadly coronavirus. ALSO READ: China concealed extent...

We are winning Covid-19 battle – Korle Bu CEO

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital says Ghana is winning the fight against Covid-19. This, according to Dr Daniel Asare, is because...

Covid-19: Here’s how to sanitize your hands the right way

Our beauty queens are taking precautions to fight against COVID-19. Are you? We asked them how to wash our hands. After they taught us the...

UGMC, BoG hospital ready as coronavirus isolation centres

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, says the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) and Bank of Ghana (BoG) Hospital are ready for use towards the...

How a covid-19 patient recovered after 23 days of treatment

A young woman, who was Kenya's first reported case of Covid-19, has said she has fully recovered after 23 days of treatment. Identified only as...

Ghana Police warns public of fake coronvirus drugs sold online

The Ghana Police Service has advised citizens to be cautious of scammers capitalising on the Coronavirus pandemic to sell unauthorised drugs to cure the...

Coronavirus: Woman, unborn baby die during emergency CS

A woman who was diagnosed with Covid-19 and her baby have died during a caesarean section. The 37-year-old mother-to-be died in hospital in Spain on...

Meet the herbalist with anti-coronavirus plant

A female herbalist in Anambra State, Mrs Flora Ilonze, has stated that she has an anti-coronavirus plant in her garden. ALSO READ: Lockdown: 15 traders arrested...

Should you stop trying to get pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic?

Deciding to try for a baby is a monumental decision — one that’s suddenly been made a whole lot more complex by the coronavirus...

What does the novel coronavirus have to do with snakes?

Much is still unknown about the novel coronavirus , as you knowbut experts are gathering more and more interesting info every day about the virus, how...

‘I’m a guy that had erectile dysfunction, and this is what I want you to know’

As an Olympic fencer, you might say I'm pretty handy with a sword. And, although I spent more than a decade outwitting opponents in...

Coronavirus: Eastern Region records first case

The Eastern region has recorded its first case of the coronavirus in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality. The patient, who is an Indian construction worker...

Coronavirus: GHS gives details on number of tested persons [Audio]

So far 4,560 coronavirus tests have been conducted since the first case was registered in the country, Dr, Badu Sarkodie, Director of the Disease...

Coronavirus and sex: What you need to know

If I have sex can I catch coronavirus? You might have thought about it but been too embarrassed to ask. To separate the facts from...

COVID-19 lockdown: Govt intervenes for the homeless, vulnerable

Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison, has announced some stimulus packages for the homeless and the vulnerable in the country following government’s...

Akufo-Addo, family test negative for Covid-19

President Nana Akufo-Addo, his wife and family have all tested negative for Covid-19, his physician Dr Patrina Techi-Ankrah disclosed on Wednesday. According to her,...

GAF withdraws soldier involved in lockdown brutalities

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says it has withdrawn some soldiers over alleged brutalities of citizens captured in a viral video for defying the lockdown...

Covid 19 cases: Check out the regional breakdown [audio]

Six more coronavirus patients on admission at the Ga East Municipal Hospital have been treated and discharged. This brings to 38 the total number of...

Nigeria confirms 4 new cases, Coronavirus cases rise to 139

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control has confirmed four new cases of the novel coronavirus in Nigeria. According to the agency, three of the new...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 34 new cases; total now 195

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has announced Ghana has recorded 34 new cases of the coronavirus disease. The total number has, thus, risen from 161...

Ghana discharges 38 coronavirus patients [listen]

Thirty-eight patients out of the 161 persons who were receiving treatment after contracting coronavirus have been discharged. The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu disclosed this to the...

Veronica Bucket inventor seeks government support for patenting

The biological scientist who invented the buckets fitted with taps for handwashing has said she will be happy if the government helps her to...

Woman, 90, dies from coronavirus after refusing a ventilator

A 90-year-old woman died after refusing a ventilator and asking if it could instead be used to save someone younger. Suzanne Hoylaerts was admitted to...

Boy, 13, dies in London after testing positive for coronavirus

A 13-year-old boy who tested positive for coronavirus has died, King’s College Hospital Trust in London said. A spokesman for the trust said the boy’s...

Ayawaso West begins compulsory House-to-House coronavirus testing

The Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly will from today, April 1, 2020 begin a mandatory house-to-house testing for the deadly coronavirus in all communities within...

Ghana declines request to transfer body of Dutch coronavirus victim to private mortuary

Ghana has declined to grant a request by Netherlands for the transfer of the mortal remains of a Dutch, Samuel Waterberg, who died recently...

Coronavirus: 3 Ghanaians confirmed dead in US [audio]

Three Ghanaians resident in New York in the United States o f America (USA) have died of COVID-19. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Ghana records 9 new cases;...

Suspected Coronavirus cases at KATH test negative

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has announced 10 of its staff, who were exposed to patients with the infectious coronavirus diseases, have tested...

Joy4Fame CEO supports Prisons Service, orphanage home

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Joy4fame Shipping Company Limited, John Obiri Yeboah, yesterday assisted the Ghana Prisons Service with some food items and...

COVID-19: Tamale ‘quarantine escapee’ found

The Guinean national, who escaped from quarantine at a guest house in Tamale, has been found. The 21-year-old Guinean was among 10 persons in mandatory...

ER Covid-19: 28 clinical suspected cases test negative, authorities mount search for other returnees

All 28 clinical suspected cases of Covid-19 in the Eastern region have tested negative at the Noguchi Memorial Institute. Three out of four contact...

Opambour cries on live TV over Coronavirus lockdown

The General Overseer of Ebenezer Miracle Worship Centre, Prophet Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom, popularly known as Prophet One, has reacted to the partial lockdown declared...

Doctor’s heartbreaking selfie with wife as she is moved to coronavirus isolation

A doctor posted a heartbreaking selfie with his wife as he said goodbye to her before she was moved to a coronavirus isolation ward. The photo shows...

Coronavirus: GHS to embark on house-to-house testing at high risk communities

The Ghana Health Services will soon hit high-risk communities in Ashanti Region to embark on a house-to-house testing of persons who may have come...

Coronavirus: 31 positive patients recover in Ghana [Audio]

Thirty-one out of 152 coronavirus positive patients in Ghana have recovered, Minister of Health Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has said. The recovered patients, the minister said, have...

Coronavirus: Infected patient escapes

One of the eight Guineans who tested positive for the novel coronavirus has escaped from the facility in which they are being quarantined in...

LEKMA medical doctor with coronavirus came into contact with about 65 people [audio]

It has emerged that the medical doctor who tested positive for the infectious coronavirus at the LEKMA Hospital at Teshie came into contact with...

Coronavirus kills Ghanaian nurse in US

The former head nurse of Jacobi Medical Center’s psychiatric unit was concerned about the lack of coronavirus precautions and testing while working there —...

Revealed: Where the LEKMA medical doctor with coronavirus also works

  It has been revealed the LEKMA Hospital doctor, who has tested positive for the infectious coronavirus, also works at a hospital at Airport. The Municipal...

Coronavirus: Infected LEKMA doctor also works for medical facility at Airport; inside story [Audio]

Municipal Director of Health at the LEKMA Hospital in Teshie, Jacqueline Sfarijiani, has confirmed that a medical doctor at the facility has tested positive...