HEALTH

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 …

The president of the 4th republic, Nana Akufo-Addo  announced late Sunday that conferences, workshops, parties, night clubs, drinking spots, beaches, festivals, political rallies, religious activities, marriage and funeral ceremonies, and sporting events remained banned  until further notice. In his 23rd address to the nation on measures government is taking to …

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) is urging the government to reintroduce restrictions on the transport sector as a means of curtailing the spread of COVID-19. According to the party, commercial vehicles including trotros and taxis are still crowded with very loose adherence to COVID-19 preventive protocols. The National Chairperson of …

Professor Ransford Gyampo, a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana, wants the government to impose a two-week lockdown to help contain the alarming spread of COVID-19. Speaking to Asaase News, Prof Gyampo said Ghana’s failure to tap into the experience of countries that held elections amidst COVID-19 is to …

A study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology has revealed that exposure to air pollution increases the risk of blindness in older adults. The study found that small increases in air pollution contribute to the occurrence of age-related muscular degeneration (AMD), a condition that causes irreversible blindness. The study, …