HEALTH

  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 …

The Government of Ghana will today Wednesday, February 24, 2021, receive the first batch of 600,000 AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra.   A press statement issued by the Ministry of Information in Accra, said the Minister for Health Designate, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, would lead the …

Some 60 health workers at the Savelugu Hospital in the Northern Region have tested positive for Covid-19. This follows mass testing of staff of the hospital after an upsurge of cases in the Savelugu Municipality. Sources say there are still some samples at the laboratory yet to be tested. The …

Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday that Ghana had granted emergency authorisation for the use of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, becoming the 31st country to do so, and the fifth African state. The Russian vaccine was approved by the West African country’s health ministry, the Russian …

  As part of the celebration of the “YEAR OF THE NURSE AND MIDWIFE”, the Ministry of Health in partnership with  Ebenage Herbal, and the RENEF Foundation gave out free customized chocolates to nurses and midwives at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).   They were also given immune booster …