HEALTH

Nine students have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Bono Region, officials of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have confirmed. The students are from two Senior High Schools and a Teacher Training College in the region. The Bono Regional Deputy Director for Public Health of the GHS, Dr John Ekow …

A private school at Akosombo in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region has recorded 40 confirmed cases of Covid-19. This was revealed by the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the region, Dr. Winfred Ofosu. Although he refused to name the school, Dr. Ofosu indicated that …

Head of Human Resource at the Prudential Bank has reportedly succumbed to complications of the Coronavirus.   Atinkaonline reports that Naa Adoley Ankrah passed on while receiving treatment at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra on Tuesday, February 2, 2021.   The report further indicates that close family relations who confirmed …

Some 429 nurses and midwives whose names were presented to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to benefit from government’s insurance package, cannot benefit from the programme. The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association has said it presented a list of 500 of its members serving as front line workers in …

The government has clarified what it meant by the ban on weddings following the re-introduction of COVID-19 restrictions to slow the spread of the second wave of the virus.   The indefinite suspension of weddings as announced by President Akufo-Addo during his 23rd Coronavirus update last Sunday has left many …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says twenty positive cases of COVID-19 have been recorded cumulatively in some schools in the Greater Accra Region. According to the Ghana Health Service, there is a limited outbreak of the virus also in some schools in the Upper West and the Western Regions. Providing …

  The regulatory agency has approved local medicine ‘Cryptolepis Sanguinolenta’, popularly known as Nibima, for clinical trial on COVID-19 treatment The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has approved Ghana’s first herbal medicine for clinical trial on COVID-19 treatment. This follows results from laboratory studies conducted by the Kwame Nkrumah University …

Ghana has yet again reached another grim milestone as far as Covid-19 is concerned. The country is currently averaging about 700 new infections daily while “hospitals have become full, and we have had to reactivate our isolation centres.” This was revealed by President Akufo-Addo during his 23rd address to the …

President Akufo-Addo says non-ECOWAS nationals who arrive at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) will continue to pay $150 for their PCR antigen test. This follows a revelation by the Health Minister-designate, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu that the President has instructed those in charge to reduce the cost of the Covid-19 test. Mr …

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. I came into your homes, on 17th January, to give an account of our COVID-19 situation – a situation which, per available data at the time, was not good. To this end, I appealed to you, my fellow Ghanaians, to help contain the spread of the …