Don’t buy Covid-19 vaccines online – FDA cautions
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has urged Ghanaians not to purchase any Covid-19 vaccine advertised by unauthorised online platforms.In a press release, the...
Covid-19: Many students have recovered after testing positive – GHS
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) says a significant number of students who tested positive for Covid-19 have recovered following a surge...
Okoe Boye writes: We can end COVID-19 pandemic this year if we do these things
Today, the 9th of March,2021, is exactly one week since the Ghana government started vaccinating its citizens against the COVID-19 disease.As a physician...
What Duncan-Williams said after receiving Covid-19 vaccine [Photos]
Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International Ministry, Nicholas Duncan-Williams, has advised people to take the Covid-19 vaccine.According to him, taking...
GHS to roll out COVID-19 vaccination appointment App
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced plans to roll out an app to aid Ghanaians book appointment for the covid-19 vaccination.According to the...
New US guideline says fully vaccinated people can meet without masks
The United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that fully vaccinated Americans can return to some sense of normalcy.Those...
Getting vaccinated is wisdom, not lack of faith – Duncan-Williams
Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International (ACI) ministry Nicholas Duncan-Williams has advised people to take the COVID-19 vaccine.The good old...
Absa Group Executive Director, Peter Matlare passes on
The Absa Group has announced the passing of its Executive Director and Deputy Group Chief Executive, Peter Matlare on Sunday.According to the Bank, he...
COVID-19: Greater Accra Region tops vaccination chart
A total of 104,174 persons in the Greater Accra Region have been vaccinated in the ongoing mass inoculation exercise, according to the Ghana Health...
COVID-19 kills fewer African women than men – WHO study
Women in Africa are less likely to die from Covid-19 than men, but more likely to succumb to maternal complications due to limited access...
I tested positive for COVID-19 – Obasanjo
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed he tested positive for Coronavirus. He revealed this on Friday, March 5, while speaking at a colloquium...
‘COVID-19 vaccination certificate will soon become a mandatory requirement to travel’
COVID-19 vaccination certificate will soon become a mandatory requirement to travel anywhere in the world, the Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, Boss...
COVID-19: Ghana records over 200 deaths in 30 days
COVID-19 related deaths seem to be rising in spite of decrease in active cases from the Disease Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health...
Two health workers die of Covid-19 in Upper East
Out of the total of 35 persons who have lost their lives through coronavirus related infections in the Upper East Region, two were health...
Asiedu Nketia’s posture while receiving Covid-19 vaccine [Photo]
General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Asiedu Nketia, on Friday, March 5, 2021, received his first covid-19 vaccine jab.A photo intercepted by...
Staff of The Multimedia Group receive COVID-19 vaccine [Photos]
Staff of The Multimedia Group Limited on Friday, March 5, 2021, received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccines.They were given the first dose...
Ghana receives 50,000 more COVID-19 vaccines
Ghana has taken delivery of 50,000 more COVID-19 vaccine doses from India.A ceremony was again held to welcome this batch of vaccines at the...
I almost died from Covid-19 – MP shares experience
Member of Parliament (MP) for Adaklu Constituency in the Volta Region, Kwame Agbodza, has disclosed that he almost died from contracting Covid-19.According to the...
Covid: Italy ‘blocks’ vaccine shipment to Australia
The Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia.The decision affects 250,000 doses of the vaccine produced at an...
Man dances on frozen lake after receiving vaccine
A Canadian man went viral after he celebrated getting his coronavirus vaccine by dancing on a frozen lake.Gurdeep Pandher shared his joy in receiving the vaccine...
When Jean Mensa, other EC officials took their first Covid-19 vaccine jabs [Photos]
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, on Wednesday, March 3, led staff of the Commission to take the COVID-19 vaccine at the Adabraka...
Fighting Covid-19: Police break up ‘fake vaccine network’
Police in China and South Africa have seized thousands of doses of counterfeit Covid-19 vaccine and made dozens of arrests, Interpol says.In China, police...
National Chief Imam takes Covid-19 jab; calls for cooperation
The National Chief Imam has called for cooperation to defeat the novel coronavirus disease as the country starts vaccination against the virus.Sheikh Osman Nuhu...
Covid-19 kills 26 people in Bono Region within three months
The coronavirus disease has killed 26 people in the Bono Region from January to March this year. One death was recorded in December...
Allergies and taking coronavirus vaccine: Here’s what you need to know
Ghana’s programme manager for the Expanded Programme on Immunisation, Dr Kwame Amponsa-Akyianu, has said that allergy considerations are among the procedures involved in the...
Nurses face increasing assault from families of coronavirus victims
Nurses at the Federal Medical Centre in the Southwestern city of Owo, Nigeria stopped treating patients after two nurses were badly beaten early last...
Why Ghana is first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines
JoyNews/AdomNews · Why Ghana was first country in the world to receive COVID-19 vaccinesDirector, Public Health Division - Ghana Health Service, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe...
Covax to send 200m doses to 142 nations by May – WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said more than 200 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to...
Here are the requirements for covid-19 vaccination [Audio]
JoyNews/AdomNews · You must have these things to be able to get vaccinatedDirector, Public Health Division - Ghana Health Service, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe,...
We prefer ‘akpeteshie’ to Covid-19 vaccine – Awutu drivers [Video]
Taxi drivers in the Central Region, Awutu Senya East and West constituency, have said they prefer drinking 'Akpeteshie' to taking the Covid-19 vaccine.According to...
Covid-19: Private Sector Fund to support govt procure vaccines
The Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund (GCPS Fund) has announced its decision to commence a vaccine procurement project.The project which has been dubbed, the...
Prefect arrested for organising twerking competition on school’s blind side
Police have arrested an entertainment prefect of the Nalerigu Nursing and Midwifery college for violating Covid-19 rules.The student leader is said to have allegedly...
Covid: Japan asks China to stop anal swab tests on its citizens
Japan has asked China to stop taking anal swab tests for Covid-19 on its citizens when they enter the country.Some have complained that the...
Ghana rolls out Covid-19 vaccination plan today
COVID-19 vaccination begins today in 43 districts in three regions of the country.The regions are: Greater Accra-25 districts, Ashanti-16 districts and Central-two districts.This will...
Akufo- Addo wins WHO boss’ heart
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has commended President Nana Akufo-Addo for receiving the covid-19 vaccine.To Dr...
Nigeria to receive about 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
The Federal government has announced that Nigeria is scheduled to take delivery of 3.92 million doses of the COVID19 vaccine on Tuesday, March 2.The delivery...
COVID-19 vaccine: UNICEF commends Akufo-Addo
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for taking the first dose of the 600,000 Covid-19...
Koku reacts to Akufo-Addo’s posture while receiving covid-19 vaccine
The Chief Executive Officer of the Atta-Mills Institute, Samuel Koku Anyidoho, has reacted to the posture of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo while receiving...
Covid-19: Western North Region records 21 new cases
The Western North Region has recorded 21 new Covid-19 cases with one death.The confirmed cases in the Region have also moved from 791 to...
Covid-19 Vaccine: Bawumia, wife receive first jab [Photos+Video]
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and his wife, Samira Bawumia, Monday morning took their jabs of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Police...