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COVID-19: Nigerian States to receive N1 billion each

At lease 32 states in Nigeria will receive one billion naira each in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.The National Coordinator of the PTF,...

Mandatory wearing of face mask extended again!

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended for another three months mandatory wearing of face masks in public as the country tries to contain...

Full Text: Akufo-Addo’s 17th address to the nation on measures to fight coronavirus

Fellow Ghanaians, good eveningThis is the 17th time that you are kindly opening the doors to your homes to me, to enable me brief you...

Coronavirus: 26 cases recorded at Kotoka International Airport

A total of 26 new coronavirus cases have been recorded at the Kotoka International Airport since its reopening.President Nana Akufo-Addo announced this during his...

COVID-19: Akufo-Addo to address nation tonight

President Nana Akufo-Addo will address the nation this evening on measures taken to eradicate the novel coronavirus.The 17th address will be televised at 8:00...

Pastor skeptical of masks lands in ICU for Covid-19

A pastor in Idaho who called himself a "no-masker" during a service and repeatedly questioned the veracity of coronavirus case reporting is in the ICU after contracting Covid-19.Paul...

COVID-19 testers go on strike in France

Staff at coronavirus laboratories in France have joined a strike, protesting against poor working conditions.The CGT labour union told Reuters news agency that several...

Gone but not forgotten: Those we lost to coronavirus (photos)

At least 294 have died in Ghana due to coronavirus, a pandemic which will not be forgotten anytime soon because of its extraordinary havoc...

Face masks could be giving people Covid-19 immunity, researchers suggest

Face masks may be inadvertently giving people Covid-19 immunity and making them get less sick from the virus, academics have suggested in one of the most...

Chinese government hands over medical supplies to Ghana

The Chinese Government on Wednesday presented its second batch of medical supplies, to the Ministry of Health, to support Ghana in the fight the...

Airport covid-19 testing: 16 travelers test positive

Some travelers have come out positive in the mandatory COVID-19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport.Some 16 out of the 6,976 tests conducted...

Number of jobs lost in Ghana through coronavirus pandemic [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · job losses recorded through coronavirus pandemicIt has emerged that Ghana has recorded a total of 11,657 Ghanaian workers who have lost their...

Coronavirus: Trump denies downplaying severity of virus

US President Donald Trump has denied that he downplayed the seriousness of Covid-19, despite admitting in a recorded interview having done that.At a televised...

Coronavirus: Ghana’s death toll hits 294 with 628 active cases

Ghana has recorded nine new Covid-19 related deaths, bringing the country’s death toll to 294.This is according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).In the...

Women grieve stillborn babies as Covid-19 spreads in India

Mantasha Bano was 28 weeks pregnant when her cries of sudden, unbearable pain prompted neighbours to call an ambulance in the rural Indian state...

UK records nearly 700,000 job losses through coronavirus pandemic

Britain’s labor market took a turn for the worse in July even as the economy gradually reopened, taking total job losses under the pandemic...

Italian airport gets world’s first five-star anti-Covid award

Rome’s Fiumicino Airport has become the first airport in the world to earn “the COVID-19 5-Star Airport Rating” from Skytrax, an international airport industry...

Coronavirus: Monoclonal antibodies to begin UK trial

A new antibody treatment is to be trialled on Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals.Monoclonal antibodies, which are potent, laboratory-made antibodies, will be given to...

WHO and Africa CDC launch Covid-19 laboratories network

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) have launched a new laboratory network that will reinforce genome sequencing...

Human rights summit on Covid-19 and abuses opens in Accra

A two-day virtual international human rights summit on Covid-19 and abuses in South Korea began on Thursday.Human rights defenders from across all corners of...

White House orders end to COVID-19 airport screenings for international travelers

 The U.S. government on Monday will stop conducting enhanced screening of passengers on inbound international flights for COVID-19, Yahoo News has learned. The screening operations have...

Scotland’s Covid-19 contact tracing app goes live

Scotland’s new contact tracing app to help combat the spread of coronavirus has gone live.The Scottish government has said the software will support the...

British Airways owner scraps flights after ‘levelling off’ in bookings

The owner of British Airways (BA) has joined rivals by announcing significant cuts to flight schedules, blaming a “levelling off” in passenger demand.International Airlines...

Plans for 10 million Covid-19 tests attacked

The government’s scientific advisory group earlier said mass testing could lead to a large number of false-positive results.The mass testing programme would cost £100bn...

Coronavirus: What to expect at Kotoka International Airport

The Kotoka International Airport, per orders from President Nana Akufo-Addo, re-opened to allow to international passenger traffic on Tuesday, September 1, 2020.Functioning on resumption...

19-year-old COVID-19 patient raped by ambulance driver, suspect arrested!

A 19-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an ambulance driver on her way to hospital after she tested positive for Covid-19.She is said to have...

Trump calls Biden ‘st*pid,’ demands apology for challenging him on vaccines

Republican President Donald Trump, accused by Joe Biden of putting lives at risk in his handling of the coronavirus, on Monday called his Democratic...

Accra Human Rights Forum holds summit on Covid-19 and human rights abuses

The Accra Human Rights Forum International (AHRFI) is organising a summit to discuss Covid-19 and human rights abuses around the world.The summit slated for...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 92 new cases

Ghana has recorded 92 new cases of the novel coronavirus.According to the Ghana Health Service, 43,801 have recovered/discharged.This brings the total number of confirmed...

Drunk security man dies with face mask on

A security guard, identified as Solomon Ede, has died after he allegedly slept wearing his face mask in his place of work in Alako area...

Akufo-Addo gets new appointment [photos]

President Akufo-Addo has been elected as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the ongoing 57th ECOWAS Summit,...

Don’t tire of Covid-19 protocols – Dr Okoe Boye urges Ghanaians

Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye says as at September 3, 2020, Ghana’s active Covid-19 case count now stands at 785.This, according to...

6 positive Covid-19 cases recorded at Kotoka International Airport

Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe Boy, has revealed that six new coronavirus cases have been recorded at the Kotoka International Airport since...

Namibia trains dogs to sniff out coronavirus

The University of Namibia’s School of Veterinary Medicine is training dogs to detect Coronavirus.The plan is to deploy the dogs at airports and borders,...

Samira Bawumia shakes Kumasi today

The Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, is expected to come to life with the glittering blue, white and red colours of the ruling New Patriotic...

After Covid-19 then what?

“We are not in normal times, we need a cure, we need a vaccine.” Global institutions such as the WHO, Centre for Disease Control...

COVID:19 Nigeria extends nationwide curfew

The Federal Government of Nigeria has adjusted the curfew from 12 midnight through 4:am, as it continues the gradual easing of lockdown measures imposed...

This is how much govt has generated in 2 days from Covid-19 testing at KIA

Government has generated a total of $37,050 from Covid-19 testing of travellers coming into Ghana since reopening the Kotoka International Airport on September 1.According...

Coronavirus: Ghana’s active cases now 856 with 280 deaths

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the country’s active Covid-19 cases have significantly dropped to 856.According to the GHS, Ghana has also recorded some...

Parents in Kumasi send important message to Akufo-Addo

Some parents in Kumasi are asking the government to reconsider its decision to suspend the reopening of schools until early next year.According to them,...