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School blazers and ties could be banned in September to stop spread of coronavirus
School pupils could be banned from wearing blazers and ties to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
The ban would start in September when more children...
Simple coronavirus ‘spit test’ instead of painful swab available from today
Patients who have suspected coronavirus can have a “spit” test to see if they have the disease, it is announced today.
Until now, potential sufferers...
Coronavirus: Brazil becomes second country to pass 50,000 deaths
Brazil has become the second country, after the US, to register more than 50,000 deaths from Covid-19.
The grim milestone comes amid growing political unrest...
Scanty information on theft of donated coronavirus equipment – Kenyan police
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is looking into two separate theft reports relating to donated Coronavirus equipment in March when the Ministry of...
Tennis star Grigor Dimitrov tests positive for coronavirus
Grigor Dimitrov has tested positive for coronavirus, just a day after his defeat to Borna Coric at the Adria Tour in Croatia.
The Bulgarian also...
Coronavirus: One school, one isolation centre – Akufo-Addo directs
All Senior High Schools (SHS) with boarding facilities are to use one of their dormitories as isolation centres as final year students report to...
Ghana’s coronavirus case count now 14,154
Ghana’s COVID-19 cases have seen yet another rise in less than 24-hours, bringing the total to 14,154.
The latest 147 new cases were announced by...
Full text: Akufo-Addo’s 12th address to the nation on measures to fight coronavirus
Fellow Ghanaians, good evening.
It has been three and a half months since we begun our fight to defeat the Coronavirus pandemic in the country....
Coronavirus: 290 new cases increases Ghana’s tally to 14,007
Ghana has recorded 290 more Covid-19 cases increasing the country’s overall total to 14,007.
Out of this figure, 399 more patients have been healed from...
Coronavirus: Akufo-Addo to address Ghanaians tonight
President Akufo-Addo will later tonight addressed the country for the on measures his administration has put in place to fight Covid-19.
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah,...
Coronavirus: Heads of SHSs, JHSs to support govt to enforce protocols
Headmasters and Headmistresses of Senior High Schools (SHSs) and Junior High Schools (JHSs) in the Ashanti Region have given assurance of their readiness to...
Coronavirus: Nyaho Medical Centre MD breaks silence after testing positive [video]
Managing Director of Nyaho Medical Centre has opened up on the reasons behind his decision to publicly announce his Covid-19 status.
According to...
Coronavirus: Ghana’s new guidelines for discharge patients
Ghana has revised its policy for the discharge of Covid-19 patients as part of measures to reduce ‘rising cost in testing’ and ‘increasing workload’.
According...
Coronavirus: ‘Dangerous phase’ of pandemic as outbreak widens, WHO warns
The world has entered a “new and dangerous phase” of the coronavirus pandemic, a top official from the World Health Organization said Friday, a...
Pregnant Nigerian teenager dies of suspected coronavirus symptoms
A 15-year-old pregnant woman on admission at the Ikorodu General Hospital, Lagos, has died from health complications similar to coronavirus symptoms.
It was learnt that...
Coronavirus pandemic accelerating with Americas worst, warns WHO
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day, and nearly half of them in the Americas,...
Coronavirus: Savannah region records two new cases
The Savannah Regional has recorded two new cases of the novel coronavirus.
The case was recorded at Salaga in the East Gonja Municipality bringing the...
Asymptomatic coronavirus patients to be discharged 14 days ‘without a test’ – GHS
Asymptomatic COVID-19 patients will, henceforth, be discharged 14 days after the initial positive test, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye,...
Coronavirus: WHO suspends use of Malaria drug again
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has for the second time stopped the use of an antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine on severely ill Covid-19 patients.
Data from...
Coronavirus: KATH orders doctors, nurses at ICU to self quarantine for 14 days
The Management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, has asked the doctors and nurses working at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)...
WHO sees “green shoots” of hope in coronavirus pandemic
Signs of hope are starting to show in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, but it...
3-month-old baby, one other die of Coronavirus in Northern Region
A three-month-old baby has died of the novel coronavirus in the Northern Region, health authorities have announced.
The infant was a week ago transferred from...
Close to 4,000 school girls impregnated in Kenya during coronavirus lockdown
Kenya has reported a sudden surge in teen pregnancies in one single county over a period of five months thus threatening to cut short...
China to prioritise Africa once coronavirus vaccines are ready
China has promised to give priority to African countries once COVID-19 vaccines are ready to use.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping was quoted by the...
Details of the 8 persons killed by coronavirus in Ghana released!
Ghana’s coronavirus death toll has increased from 58 to 66 following the death of eight patients.
This was contained in an update by the Ghana...
Ghana records 8 new coronavirus deaths
Eight more people, who have contracted the novel coronavirus, have been confirmed dead, per new data released by the Ghana Health Service.
This shoots the...
Govt to set up 2 coronavirus hospitals in Ashanti region
Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Oko Boye, has revealed that the government is taking steps to turn two hospitals in the Ashanti region...
Coronavirus: Central region stops mass testing
The Central Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service has asked all health facilities and districts to desist from mass testing of people unless...
Coronavirus kills three-month-old baby in Northern region [video]
A three-month-old baby is among the recorded Covid-19 deaths in the Northern, the regional Ghana Health Service says.
Speaking at a briefing in...
Dr Okoe Boye reveals coronavirus status
Deputy Health Minister, Benard Okoe Boye, has tested negative to the deadly novel coronavirus.The medical practitioner-cum-politician, who was rumoured to have contracted the virus...
Coronavirus: SHS Heads assure of students safety
As Senior High Schools (SHSs) prepare to re-open on Monday, June 22, heads in the Eastern Region have assured that all arrangements were in...
FDA approves convalescence plasma treatment for coronavirus patients
Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, on Tuesday confirmed that the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has approved an investigational convalescent plasma collected...
Coronavirus can still pass between face mask wearers — even when they’re 4 feet...
COVID-19 can be transmitted between people who are standing more than four feet apart, even if they are wearing a mask, a new study has found.
The...
Dexamethasone: What is the new life-saving coronavirus drug?
Researchers have announced that a drug called dexamethasone has been found to reduce the risk of deaths among ventilated Covid-19 patients by around 33 per cent.
A team of...
Coronavirus has delayed arrival of Hearts of Oak’s new bus, says Majority shareholder
Board Chairman of Hearts of Oak, Togbe Afede XIV, has blamed the outbreak of the coronavirus for the delay in the arrival of the club’s...
Nigeria records 573 new cases of Coronavirus
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday June 15, announced 573 new cases of Coronavirus.
A breakdown of the new cases across different states...
Coronavirus: Wives storm isolation centre in Nigeria to demand release of husbands[Video]
Wives of Egbin power station workers made a scene as they called for their husbands to be released to them.
Staff of Egbin power station,...
Life-saving coronavirus drug has been found
A cheap and widely available drug called dexamethasone can help save the lives of patients who are seriously ill with coronavirus, according to a...
Coronavirus: 229 new cases increase Ghana’s total to 12,193
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has disclosed that 229 more people have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the country’s total to 12,193.
According to the...
Major coronavirus breakthrough as experts find first drug to stop people dying
British scientists have found the first drug to stop people dying from Covid-19 which will be rolled out on the NHS from tomorrow.
Breakthrough research...