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Covid-19: Ghana’s Mission to UK and Ireland breaks silence on Papa Owusu-Akomah’s condition

The High Commission of the Republic of Ghana to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has said the High Commissioner, Papa Owusu-Ankomah,...

COVID-19: California to give $500 payments to undocumented immigrants

California will give cash payments to immigrants living in the country irregularly, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, using a mix of taxpayer money and...

Coronavirus: Germany slowly eases lockdown measures

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced plans to slowly ease restrictions brought in to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. Social distancing rules will stay in place...

COVID-19: Leading expert predicts pandemic to end next year

Dr Zhang Wenhong, China’s leading COVID-19 clinical expert, has predicted a high probability of the global coronavirus pandemic ending next year. According to Dr Wenhong,...

Pregnant nurse, 28 dies of coronavirus

A heavily pregnant nurse has died from coronavirus after medics tried to save her baby. The 28-year-old reportedly underwent an emergency cesarean to deliver and...

Kenyan Governor offers free alcohol in Covid-19 fight

The Governor of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has sparked controversy after announcing that he will distribute alcohol as part of food packs for...

Exact moment coronavirus infects a healthy cell captured under microscope

The moment that coronavirus infects a healthy cell has been captured under a microscope for the first time. Researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil have...

Social distancing ‘may be needed until 2022’, scientists warn

Social distancing may be needed until 2022 to stop the spread of coronavirus, a new study has warned. According to the study, while one-time social distancing...

Breaking News: Trump carries out ‘fund-cut’ threat against WHO

President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has carried out his threat to cut cash supply to the World Health Organization (WHO). His...

G7 backs temporary debt relief for poor countries if G20 agrees

Group of Seven (G7) finance officials on Tuesday vowed to continue to act as needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic and stabilize the global...

Landlords ‘asking for sex instead of rent’ during coronavirus crisis

Millions of people around the world have either been laid off or furloughed due to the pandemic as governments impose harsh lockdown measures to...

Covid-19: China approves three vaccines for clinical trials

China has approved three COVID-19 vaccine candidates for clinical trials, said an official with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on Tuesday. An adenovirus...

WHO releases children’s book on COVID 19

The coronavirus pandemic seems like a big black cloud, which is hovering over our heads. With more than 10,000 total cases and 300 deaths in...

Village uses ‘ghosts’ to scare people during lockdown

An Indonesian village, Kepuh, has been employing the help of 'ghosts' to force people to obey lockdown rules as a measure to deal with...

Coronavirus: Parents name newborn baby sanitiser

A newborn in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh in India has been christened Sanitiser by his parents in a way that archives the trying time the...

TOR boss fingered in $4.5 million bribery scandal

Tema Oil Refinery boss, Asante Berko is currently in hot waters for his alleged role in the latest bribery scandal that has hit Ghana. Mr...

Ghana not going back to IMF-supported programme – Gabby Otchere

Leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko, has said Ghana will not be going back to an IMF-supported programme on the...

Pastor who vowed to keep preaching unless he was “in jail or the hospital” dies of Covid-19

The evangelical pastor, who vowed to keep preaching unless he was "in jail or the hospital", has died of COVID-19 weeks after defiantly opening...

Coronavirus: Bill Gates hopes to reach 7bn people with potential vaccine

Microsoft billionaire, Bill Gates, has said that getting vaccines to seven billion people would be challenging but a target that must be worked...

Coronavirus: Spain begins to ease lockdown to revive economy

Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus, is beginning to ease strict lockdown measures that have brought its economy...

Coronavirus: Tourists forced to write ‘I am so sorry’ 500 times over lockdown breach [photos]

Some 10 foreigners, who broke a coronavirus lockdown in an Indian town made famous by the Beatles, were forced to repent by writing "I...

Coronavirus: Drogba offers hospital in virus fight

Former Chelsea forward, Didier Drogba, has offered his hospital in his native Ivory Coast to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, a local...

Lockdown dairies: Girl ,15, commits suicide

A teenage girl in California killed herself after she reportedly struggled to cope with the state's stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus outbreak.  ALSO READ: Woman loses...

How UK health system killed my cousin – Popular actress cries

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has announced the death of her cousin from a kidney transplant complication.  ALSO READ: Diddy dances with Tiwa Savage live on Instagram; talks about...

Coronavirus’ genetic makeup traced back to US funded experiments on bats in Wuhan laboratories

Scientists have sequenced the COVID-19 genome and traced it back to bats found in caves in China’s Yunnan community. Bats from Yunnan were, however, used for...

Woman loses her entire family to coronavirus

A woman from Michigan has lost her husband of 35 years and her only son to coronavirus within three days of one another. ALSO READ: NDC...

Add domestic violence prevention plans in national response to COVID-19 – Guterres says as domestic abuse cases double

General-Secretary of the United Nations The United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, has asked the world governments to include domestic violence prevention and redress plans...

Woman, 21, dies of Covid-19 while awaiting liver transplant

A "bubbly" young nursery worker has died after testing positive for coronavirus while in hospital awaiting a liver transplant. Katie Horne's family have been left...

Pope calls for global solidarity in Easter message

Pope Francis has called for global solidarity to fight the coronavirus crisis in his Easter message read to an empty St Peter's Basilica. "This is...

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson shares near death experience

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it "could have gone either way" as he thanked healthcare workers for saving his life after...

Coronavirus: US death toll overtakes Italy as world’s highest

The United States has now overtaken Italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world. The latest data, compiled by Johns Hopkins...

Coronavirus: Pope calls for global solidarity in Easter message

Pope Francis has called for global solidarity to fight the coronavirus crisis in his Easter message read to an empty St Peter's Basilica. "This is...

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson discharged from hospital

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has left hospital after being treated for coronavirus, but will not immediately return to work, Downing Street says. ALSO...

Coronavirus: List of animals that can be farmed for meat in China

The Chinese government released a new list of animals that can be farmed for meat as the country begins to reopen to a...

Coronavirus: How to celebrate a birthday during pandemic

The global coronavirus pandemic has drastically disrupted daily life around the world, and birthday kings and queens, unfortunately, don’t have the power to wish...

Coronavirus: Check out Queen Elizabeth’s prophecy

"Coronavirus will not overcome us," the Queen has said, in an Easter message to the nation. ALSO READ: READ: Why Bawumia thinks Ghana’s scientists are the...

Coronavirus: Three pastors sue govt

Three pastors have sued Kenyan government after church services stopped operating due to the coronavirus lockdown put in place to halt the...

12 Ghanaians die of Coronavirus in US

Nine more Ghanaian residents of New York in the United States of America (USA) have died of the novel coronavirus disease, bringing the total...

Coronavirus: China descends on Ghanaians, others, Ghana govt reacts

Government is disappointed with reports of inhumane treatment being meted out to Ghanaians in China following the coronavirus pandemic in Africa. This comes on the back of widespread...

New Ebola case confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo

A new case of Ebola virus disease was confirmed today in the city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “While not...