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Doctor who recovered from Covid-19 shares near-death experience exclusively with JoyNews [Watch]

She came into contact with a patient who later tested positive for Covid-19 at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital in March 2020.And after exhibiting symptoms...

Teacher Unions kick against re-opening of schools

Teacher Unions in the country have kicked against plans by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to re-open schools should President Nana Akufo-Addo decide to...

Coronavirus: 624 workers of Tema Fish Processing Factory test negative

About 624 workers of the Tema Fishing Processing Company, who came into contact with a coronavirus patient, have tested negative.This was after 695...

Govt makes payment to ECG for Covid-19 electricity relief package [audio]

The government has made some payments to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) following the electricity relief package announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo.“The government...

Coronavirus: Check out the main hotspot in Ashanti region

The Obuasi Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti region has been identified as the main hotspot in the Ashanti region following the outbreak of the...

Coronavirus: How a trader infected 17 people in the Obuasi market [audio]

A trader in the Obuasi market in the Ashanti region is said to have infected about 17 people with coronavirus, Head of Disease Surveillance...

Coronavirus: Community holds party for survivors

Twelve COVID-19 patients in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern region, who were discharged after a month at a quarantine treatment centre, have been...

COVID-19: Lydia Forson contributes quota to stop stigmatisation

Actress Lydia Forson is set to embark on a humanitarian task to empower victims of COVID-19 in the Ghanaian society.Finger-pointing and neglect are some...

Coronavirus: Moderna vaccine trial shows promising early results

The first coronavirus vaccine to be tested in people appears to be safe and able to stimulate an immune response against the virus, its...

COVID-19: Pastor denies church members to avoid arrest for defiance

'Save yourself first' is what an unidentified Nigerian pastor did when police raided his church for conducting services despite the social gathering ban.The said...

COVID-19: Vaccine developers need to take their time

The fast pace at which various laboratories are working on vaccines against Covid-19 carries both promise and peril. On Monday, Moderna Therapeutics Inc. announced...

Ghana’s coronavirus cases rise to 5,918, 2 more deaths recorded

New updates released by the Ghana Health Service show another surge in Ghana’s coronavirus cases as 183 persons have tested positive for the virus....

20 Ghanaians die from coronavirus in the US

The Ghana Embassy in the United States of America (USA) has revealed that 20 Ghanaians have died from the coronavirus in that part of...

COVID-19 Trust Fund: Company donates sensor washing equipment to secretariat

As the fight against coronavirus intensifies, many people and groups are coming up with innovations to support Ghana.One of such groups is Apinko 1...

South Korean football club uses s3x dolls to fill empty stadium (Photos)

South Korean football club, FC Seoul have been forced to apologise after using sex dolls to fill their empty stadium as stand-in fans for...

Coronavirus: Buhari orders lockdown of states as virus rapidly increases

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that precision lockdowns be implemented in areas recording high rates of coronavirus infections in the country.The chairman of the...

Inside the ‘plane graveyard’ storing nearly 300 jets grounded by coronavirus

While many airports around the world have ground to a halt with flights cancelled, one runway located in the middle of the Arizona desert...

Coronavirus: Accra Psychiatric Hospital staff tests positive

A staff of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital has tested positive for Covid-19 after coming into contact with an affected patient.This was after some 110...

We thought coronavirus was hoax until … – Infected patients

Some Ghanaian Covid-19 patients who are currently battling the virus in intensive care units have revealed how they doubted the presence of the virus...

Wedding guests flee coronavirus raid [Video]

A pastor in Nigeria’s southern city of Calabar has been arrested for breaching lockdown rules by conducting a wedding in his church.In a video,...

Why America, African nations and others are indebted to China – T. B. Joshua reveals

Prophet T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations has advised America to concentrate on what China is doing to grow its economy....

All my family members have tested positive for Covid-19, including me – Lady laments

A lady has said that all her family members, including her, have tested positive for Covid-19.In a twitter post on Friday, May 15, the...

Coronavirus: 85 million children at risk of violence – World Vision warns

World Vision, a non-governmental agency, says 1 billion children, who are already exposed to violence, are at risk and the number likely to grow by...

European countries set to further ease lockdowns

Italy and Spain are among a number of European countries that are set to further ease their coronavirus lockdown restrictions from Monday.Most businesses in...

Coronavirus: Bishop Oyedepo ‘heals’ church members

According to Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, the church received 62 testimonies of persons healed of...

Coronavirus: 1,500 patients waiting to be discharged – Dr Nsiah-Asare

Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, says Ghanaians should brace up for more COVID-19 recoveries as some 1,500 patients are on the waiting...

Pentecost elder shares experience at Covid-19 isolation centre after recovery

An elder of the Church of Pentecost, who recently recovered from the deadly coronavirus, has shared his experience at the isolation centre.The Pentecost elder,...

Hypertension, diabetes top underlying health conditions of 28 dead COVID-19 patients

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Saturday released details of the 28 dead persons from the deadly coronavirus pandemic.Among the diseases listed by the...

Uber ‘expected to lay off thousands of workers’

Uber is reportedly preparing to cut thousands more jobs in another wave of layoffs just weeks after 3,500 employees were laid off during a Zoom...

How persons with underlying health conditions can build strong immunity against COVID-19

Dr Emmanuel Ameyaw, a paedetrician at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, has advised Ghanaians with underlying health conditions on how to build a strong...

1,500 coronavirus patients waiting to be discharged – Dr Nsiah-Asare

Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has said Ghanaians should brace up for more Covid-19 recoveries as some 1,500 patients are on the...

Coronavirus: Details of autopsy report revealed

Exclusive details from the report of the autopsies conducted on some Covid-19 bodies at the Ga East District hospital shows some of the deceased...

Covid-19: Couple, guests run as task force storms wedding [Video]

Members of the Cross River state Covid-19 taskforce disrupted a wedding that was in session at the Christ Apostolic Church in Calabar, the state capital...

Obama criticises Trump administration’s virus response

Former US President Barack Obama has criticised his successor Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.In an online address to graduating college students, he...

Buhari receives Madagascar’s COVID-19 herbal drug

President Muhammadu Buhari has taken delivery of the Madagascar native formulation against the Coronavirus.At an audience meeting with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea...

My wife and I came face-to-face with death – Nigerian coronavirus survivor narrates

Narrating the trauma his wife and himself suffered at the isolation centre after testing positive for coronavirus, Chief Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special...

Teen battles new coronavirus syndrome

When a sprinkling of a reddish rash appeared on Jack McMorrow’s hands in mid-April, his father figured the 14-year-old was overusing hand sanitizer —...

Madagascar registers its first Covid-19 death, but has not quit World Health Organisation

Madagascar has not quit the World Health Organisation, neither has it asked other African countries to follow suit.The President of the island nation off the...

Okoe-Boye reacts to AFP report on Covid-19 testing in Africa

Bernard Okoe-Boye, the Deputy Health Minister has rebuffed claims that an AFP report has undermined government’s claim that Ghana is leading Covid-19 tests in...

Pregnant COVID-19 patient delivered of baby boy

Gbagada Isolation Centre in Lagos has been thrown into a state of excitement and thanksgiving after one of its patients was successfully delivered of...