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Noguchi develops model to detect fake Covid-19 drugs

The proliferation of fake Covid-19 drugs on the Ghanaian market will soon see a change as Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research is developing...

Liberia’s Vice President flown to Ghana with ‘respiratory complications’

The Vice President of Liberia, Jewel Howard-Taylor, has been flown to Ghana for health treatment.The government said she was sent to Ghana on Tuesday...

Residents break into mortuary, steal body of suspected COVID-19 patient

Some residents of Kojo Boffour near Yeji in the Bono region have stormed the St. Mathias Catholic Hospital to remove the body of a...

‘Don’t patronise cheap face shields’

The Importers and Wholesalers Association of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Ghana, Tuesday urged the public not to patronise low priced face shields because they...

Kenya to engage Russia over vaccine

Health officials in Kenya have said they will engage Russia over its Covid-19 vaccine, radio station Capital FM reports.This is after Russia became the first...

Sex and coronavirus: How to have it safely

You’ve heard of the “new normal” around things like going back to work or shopping.But it also applies to sex, according to a sexual...

Coronavirus: Popular actor tests positive on his 60th birthday

Popular actor, Antonio Banderas, has tested positive for coronavirus in Malaga on his 60th birthday, he announced today.Mr Banderas, who is best known for...

Coronavirus: Putin says vaccine has been approved for use

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a locally developed vaccine for Covid-19 has been given regulatory approval after less than two months of testing...

Mahama begs Akufo-Addo over pastor jailed for flouting COVID-19 rules

Former President and Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to grant clemency to a...

Coronavirus: Putin says vaccine has been approved for use

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a locally developed vaccine for Covid-19 has been given regulatory approval after less than two months of testing...

Surviving Covid-19: Survivors share their experience

As the novel disease caused by coronavirus continues to threaten the lives of people across the globe.It is extremely thoughtful when individuals who...

Love at Covid-19 isolation centre: Discharged lady snubs father, goes home with new lover

There was drama at the Oyo state Infectious Disease Centre on Saturday when a young lady refused to follow her father home after she...

Ghana is making progress in reducing Covid-19 cases – Leader of National Response team

The Leader of Risk Communication for Covid-19 National Response, Dr Da Costa Aboagye, says Ghana is making significant progress in the fight against the...

UK investigates coronavirus risks for black citizens

Various studies are being undertaken in the United Kingdom (UK) to find out why black and ethnic minorities in the country appear to be...

We are overwhelmed – Coronavirus burial team

Leader of the coronavirus burial team, Inspector Joseph Asitanga, has described as, overwhelming the number of bodies they have in the morgues awaiting burial.According...

Let’s interrogate Covid-19 recovery cases – CEO urges Ghanaians

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Marrer Ghana Limited and Susatgad Boat Building and Fishing Industries, Novihoho Afaglo, has questioned the honesty on the...

Africa’s Covid-19 case count crosses 1 million

The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa has hit the one million mark with experts warning that the continent is yet to reach its peak.The virus has...

Govt told not to neglect non-communicable diseases in Covid-19 fight

The Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA) has told government not to neglect persons living with Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the country in its fight...

Coronavirus: Asymptomatic cases ‘carry same amount of virus’

People with symptomless COVID-19 can carry as much of the virus as those with symptoms, a South Korean study has suggested.South Korea was able...

Covid-19 National Trust Fund presents PPEs to 13 health facilities

The Covid-19 National Trust Fund has presented assorted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to 13 health institutions...

Can I visit France? Latest holiday advice and quarantine rules

Holidaymakers can still visit France despite a rise in the number of cases.The Eurostar has resumed direct trains to Disneyland Pairs and many restaurants...

Family of woman who died of Covid-19 rejects report

The family of a woman who tested positive for Covid-19 in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region has rejected laboratory result that she...

No SHS student has died of Covid-19 – Dr Oko-Boye tells Parliament

The Deputy Health Minister has told Parliament that no Covid-19 related death has been recorded in any senior high schools since finalists returned to...

Covid-19 kills couple of 35 years[photo]

Covid-19 has taken the souls of love birds and happily married couple, Keith and Gwendolyn Robinson of Vallejo, California, United States.The couple met in...

Six common fights couples are having during the coronavirus pandemic

Even rock-solid couples are quarreling more in quarantine. The stress of living through a global pandemic with no clear end in sight while dealing...

Facebook and Twitter ‘punish’ Trump for virus claim

Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were "almost immune" to coronavirus.Facebook deleted...

Gambian leader declares state of emergency

Gambian President Adama Barrow has declared a state of emergency and introduced nationwide night curfew for 21 days as coronavirus cases keep rising.The president...

Price of hydroxychloroquine skyrockets in Nigeria

The price of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has skyrocketed in Nigeria, according to the government's consumer protection body.There's been widespread interest in hydroxychloroquine as...

South Africa coronavirus second wave risk ‘remains’

South Africa's Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has said the country's risk of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic still "remains".He told a virtual...

Check out photo of couple kissing through mask to prevent infection during a flu in 1937

A photo of a couple kissing with surgical masks to prevent infection during a flu epidemic in 1937 has popped up on social media.Check...

Ghana’s COVID-19 deaths hit 199

Eight more persons have died from the novel coronavirus disease, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).This brings the country’s death toll to 199.The...

The economy we inherited could never have survived Covid-19 – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the economy his government inherited from the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) could not have sustained expenditures incurred during...

Over 11,000 COVID-19 patients discharged within 24 hours in Nigeria

Nigeria has recorded the highest one-day recovery from the deadly COVID-19 disease after over 11,000 patients reportedly recovered in a day.This is based on...

Ethiopia receives ventilators from the US

The US government has donated 250 ventilators to Ethiopia to help in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.The donation came after a promise made...

Anxious WHO implores world to ‘do it all’ in long war on coronavirus

The World Health Organization warned on Monday that there might never be a “silver bullet” for COVID-19 in the form of a perfect vaccine...

Details of 9 new covid-19 deaths that have pushed toll to 191

Ghana Health Service has released latest updates on the Covid-19 situation in Ghana, revealing that nine more persons have died from the virus, raising...

Man United legend, Paul Scholes in trouble!

Former Manchester United and England footballer, Paul Scholes, has been spoken to by police over claims he flouted lockdown rules by staging a house...

Covid-19: Drunkards Association appeals for double-track system at drinking spots (Video)

The Drunkards Association of Ghana is appealing to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to introduce a double-track system at drinking spots all...

Kenyan nurse dies of Covid-19 after giving birth

A Kenyan nurse has died from Covid-19 days after giving birth for the first time while undergoing treatment for the disease in hospital.Local media...

9 out of 95 Ghanaian nurses dispatched to Barbados test positive for Covid-19

Acting Chief Medical Officer of Barbados has disclosed that nine members from a team of Ghanaian nurses dispatched to work in Barbados have tested...