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Covid-19: Here’s how to sanitize your hands the right way

Our beauty queens are taking precautions to fight against COVID-19. Are you? We asked them how to wash our hands. After they taught us the...

Covid-19: Volunteer travel information of tenants – GIS to landlords

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) is urging all property owners and landlords to immediately furnish the Service with information on their tenants (Ghanaians and Non-Ghanaians) who...

UGMC, BoG hospital ready as coronavirus isolation centres

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, says the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) and Bank of Ghana (BoG) Hospital are ready for use towards the...

How a covid-19 patient recovered after 23 days of treatment

A young woman, who was Kenya's first reported case of Covid-19, has said she has fully recovered after 23 days of treatment.Identified only as...

Coronavirus: Sammy Gyamfi warns of community reprisals during lockdown

The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress is warning of reprisal attacks on security personnel if the seeming brutalities during...

Ghana Police releases videos of security brutality unrelated to lockdown [watch]

The Ghana Police Service has released video footages of some security officers brutalising civilians in the country.The Service on their Twitter page said such...

Coronavirus: The unusual ways countries are managing lockdowns

Countries across the globe are taking unprecedented measures to prevent the coronavirus spreading, ranging from the extreme to the relaxed to the creative.We've taken...

Ghana Police warns public of fake coronvirus drugs sold online

The Ghana Police Service has advised citizens to be cautious of scammers capitalising on the Coronavirus pandemic to sell unauthorised drugs to cure the...

READ: Former First Lady’s take on coronavirus

The current crisis caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is taking a toll on lives globally, with women being the worst hit.ALSO READ:Lockdown...

Coronavirus: Woman, unborn baby die during emergency CS

A woman who was diagnosed with Covid-19 and her baby have died during a caesarean section.The 37-year-old mother-to-be died in hospital in Spain on...

Meet the herbalist with anti-coronavirus plant

A female herbalist in Anambra State, Mrs Flora Ilonze, has stated that she has an anti-coronavirus plant in her garden.ALSO READ:Lockdown: 15 traders arrested...

Should you stop trying to get pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic?

Deciding to try for a baby is a monumental decision — one that’s suddenly been made a whole lot more complex by the coronavirus...

What does the novel coronavirus have to do with snakes?

Much is still unknown about the novel coronavirus , as you knowbut experts are gathering more and more interesting info every day about the virus, how...

Covid 19: How a ‘slay queen’ was subjected to severe beatings for flouting lockdown

A lady has been severely punished by some security personnel for flouting partial lockdown in Kumasi.Following the lockdown which started on Monday, March 30, 2020,...

Coronavirus: Mzbel questions the existence of churches, pastors

Singer Mzbel has taken a swipe at pastors around the globe who are waiting for Coronavirus infections to subside so they could continue to...

Coronavirus: Eastern Region records first case

The Eastern region has recorded its first case of the coronavirus in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality.The patient, who is an Indian construction worker...

Coronavirus: GHS gives details on number of tested persons [Audio]

So far 4,560 coronavirus tests have been conducted since the first case was registered in the country, Dr, Badu Sarkodie, Director of the Disease...

Coronavirus and sex: What you need to know

If I have sex can I catch coronavirus? You might have thought about it but been too embarrassed to ask.To separate the facts from...

COVID-19 lockdown: Govt intervenes for the homeless, vulnerable

Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison, has announced some stimulus packages for the homeless and the vulnerable in the country following government’s...

Akufo-Addo, family test negative for Covid-19

President Nana Akufo-Addo, his wife and family have all tested negative for Covid-19, his physician Dr Patrina Techi-Ankrah disclosed on Wednesday.According to her,...

Over 15,000 Zimbabwean returnees dodge coronavirus testing

Less than 200 people have gone through coronavirus testing out of 16,032 returnees who arrived in Zimbabwe after the outbreak of the world pandemic,...

GAF withdraws soldier involved in lockdown brutalities

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says it has withdrawn some soldiers over alleged brutalities of citizens captured in a viral video for defying the lockdown...

Coronavirus: Top South African HIV scientist dies

Tributes are being paid to world-renowned South African scientist Gita Ramjee, who died on Tuesday of Covid-19 complications.Prof. Ramjee had recently returned home from...

Russian doctor who shook Vladimir Putin’s hand tests positive for Covid-19

A Russian doctor, who was in close proximity to Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, according to the...

COVID-19: GhNCDA entreats members, Ghanaians to abide by directives

The Ghana Non-communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA) is entreating its members and Ghanaians to abide by all precautionary outlined measures.The reason, according to the alliance,...

Coronavirus: GFA must consider abrogating season – Alhaji Grusah

Alhaji Karim Grusah has implored the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to consider abrogating the season due to coronavirus outbreak.Football activities in the country have...

Weija-Gbawe Assembly begins House-to-House coronavirus testing of contacts traced

 The Weija-Gbawe Assembly has announced an on-going 10-day house-to-house enhanced coronavirus testing of contacts traced.According to the Assemblyman for the Tetegu electoral area, Bright...

Bawumia supports stranded ‘Ejisu Kayayei’ with GH¢500 each

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has donated GH¢ 500 to each of the stranded 'Kayayei' (head porters) who were stopped at Ejisu in the Ashanti region on their way...

Covid 19 cases: Check out the regional breakdown [audio]

Six more coronavirus patients on admission at the Ga East Municipal Hospital have been treated and discharged.This brings to 38 the total number of...

Lockdown: Defiant residents to face court today [audio]

The Ghana Police Service has revealed it will from today, April 1, 2020 put some defiant people before court for flouting the government's lockdown...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 34 new cases; total now 195

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has announced Ghana has recorded 34 new cases of the coronavirus disease. The total number has, thus, risen from 161...

Ghana discharges 38 coronavirus patients [listen]

Thirty-eight patients out of the 161 persons who were receiving treatment after contracting coronavirus have been discharged.The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu disclosed this to the...

We need our share of the $100m coronavirus cash – Patapaa

Agona Swedru-based musician, Patapaa insists there is the need for government to pay musicians because coronavirus has also halted their business and they need...

Veronica Bucket inventor seeks government support for patenting

The biological scientist who invented the buckets fitted with taps for handwashing has said she will be happy if the government helps her to...

Woman, 90, dies from coronavirus after refusing a ventilator

A 90-year-old woman died after refusing a ventilator and asking if it could instead be used to save someone younger.Suzanne Hoylaerts was admitted to...

Boy, 13, dies in London after testing positive for coronavirus

A 13-year-old boy who tested positive for coronavirus has died, King’s College Hospital Trust in London said.A spokesman for the trust said the boy’s...

Manasseh’s Folder: The tears that wiped Akufo-Addo’s ‘great’ speech

When they say a prophet has no honour in his own home, it means one of two things. It means the prophet is either...

GAF reacts to lockdown social media videos

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has described as fake viral videos on social media which sought to suggest mishandling of civilians by soldiers of the Operation...

Ayawaso West begins compulsory House-to-House coronavirus testing

The Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly will from today, April 1, 2020 begin a mandatory house-to-house testing for the deadly coronavirus in all communities within...

Ghana declines request to transfer body of Dutch coronavirus victim to private mortuary

Ghana has declined to grant a request by Netherlands for the transfer of the mortal remains of a Dutch, Samuel Waterberg, who died recently...