The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research has denied reports it has recommended a lockdown to the government as one of the measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Speaking at a press conference held at the Ministry...
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development says it will continue the disinfection exercise in the Ashanti Region on Thursday.
This follows Monday’s exercise across all markets within the Greater Accra Region to check the spread of the Coronavirus.
In...
Ghana’s confirmed number of the coronavirus disease has shot to 52 from the previous 27 confirmed cases. This means about 25 more new cases have added to the national figure.
The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu confirmed this at...
NB: We dedicate today’s editorial column to Dr. SF Gyasi, a Senior
Lecturer in Microbiology University of Energy and Natural Resources.
I write to contribute my quota
to nation building on the COVID-19 discourse in these emergency times. Before I
start, permit...
Members of Parliament have lamented the capping regime of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) warning it poses a major challenge to the Fund’s operation.
The policy, the members
warned, continues to reduce monies that should conventionally accrue to the
fund and...
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has taken the sensitisation programme on Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) to markets across the country as part of measures to curb the spread of the deadly virus.
COVID-19 infections and deaths
are surging...
Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu has made a passionate appeal to Speaker Aaron Michael Oquaye and Parliament to protect its systems and institutions in the light of the Coronavirus outbreak.
The House, he said, like other
institutions should take all the necessary...
The Emergency Epidemic Response Committee of the Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly has held crunch meeting in compliance with government’s emergency mechanisms to combat the global deadly coronavirus disease in the country.
The Heads of various
departments in the municipality briefed the...
Ghana has now legalised the use of cannabis for health and industrial purposes after Parliament passed the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019 on Friday.
The new law empowers the
Minister for the Interior to grant licences for the cultivation of cannabis...
The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has issued a warning to healthcare givers and the public to be wary of vendors claiming to supply Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits for COVID-19.
The FDA, the Association
warned, has not...
