HEALTH

      Ghana’s latest case count on the coronavirus disease has seen approximately 88,421 cumulative cases recorded since the outbreak of the disease last year.   Released on Wednesday, March 17, the latest case count also sees 193 new infections recorded while seven persons have unfortunately succumbed to the …

Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, the Advisor to the President on Health, says Ghana has a strong enough monitoring system for adverse effects of the coronavirus vaccine. These include follow-up protocols and a feedback form, Dr. Nsiah-Asare noted on the Citi Breakfast Show. His comments were in relation to recent developments with …

Assin Central lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong has said he is against the free supply of coronavirus vaccines to Ghana. He said the free supply of the vaccines to developing countries by the developed economies will further increase the overreliance on them by 3rd world countries for support. Speaking on his television …

Frontline health workers at the Tamale COVID-19 treatment centre have threatened to lay down their tools by Friday 12th March over the government’s failure to pay them the 50 percent basic salary allowance which has been in arrears since last year. In a statement sighted by Citi News, they highlighted …

  The Information Ministry says the government has no plans to punish any citizen refusing to be inoculated against   The government has denied media reports that it intends passing laws to sanction Ghanaians who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine, a statement from the Information Ministry said. “The said …

Parliament has recorded 12 more cases of the COVID-19 virus within its enclave. Most of the cases involve auxiliary members of the House with a few being Members of Parliament (MPs). These persons tested positive after a Coronavirus re-testing exercise was conducted ahead of today’s resumption of parliamentary sitting following …

The 2020 flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has received his first vaccination against the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). He took his vaccine on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at the Police Hospital together with his wife, former First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama. Mr. Mahama after taking …

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, is expected to receive the first shot of COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday (2 March 2021) in the Ashanti Region as the country begins vaccination for the next two weeks. It follows the successful vaccination of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and vice-president Dr Mahamudu …

President Akufo-Addo will receive the first dose of the initial consignment of COVID-19 vaccines which arrived in the country on Wednesday. “President Akufo-Addo will be the first to be vaccinated,” Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, Presidential advisor on health, disclosed. According to Dr Nsiah-Asare, the move to have the President take the …

Minister designate for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has told the Appointments Committee of Parliament that the Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Small Scale Mining told him the number of unaccounted for seized excavators is not up to five hundred as was reported in the media. He said this …