Kenya will remove a range of tax exemptions including for oil and gas exploration as it seeks to make up for revenue lost to the impact of the coronavirus crisis, its finance minister said on Thursday. As well as a drop in tax collection caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has supported the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to locally produce hand sanitisers to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection at health facilities in Ghana. Through this intervention, UNDP has donated 11,150 litres of hand sanitisers (5,000 pieces of 230ml bottles and 2,000 pieces of...
Over 692,000 young people in the country are set to benefit from the COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Programme (CoRe) which has been launched by the Springboard Road Show in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation and Solidaridad. The programme, which seeks to support young people in the country in the wake...
The CH Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation has presented a cheque for  US$100,000 to the Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund at a ceremony in Accra. The donation is in support of the construction of Ghana’s first-ever infectious disease isolation and treatment facility. Cynthia Darko Acquaye, Group Chief Operating Officer of CH...
 The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is extending health promotion, public outreach and awareness on coronavirus to vulnerable populations, including persons with disability and people living with HIV in hard-to reach communities. The goal is to ensure that 500,000 vulnerable women and 250,000...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to report COVID-19 symptoms early to health facilities to avoid death. Delivering his 13th COVID-19 update to the nation, the President explained that most patients who reported to health facilities late either died on arrival or within forty-eight hours after arrival at...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said the various schools across the country have already been fumigated and disinfected various quantities of PPE have been provisioned to cater for the students, teachers and non-teaching staff, as they reopen tomorrow. In all about 750,000 persons, comprising 532,000 JHS 3 students,...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended for three months more, incentive packages for health workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The packages the President noted, are meant to commend health workers for their handwork during the pandemic, and to also encourage them to do more in that regard. He attributed the...
 The Ghana Electrical Dealers Association (GEDA) on Wednesday engaged Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) to disinfect its business space at Opera Square, Accra, also known as Cow Lane. The exercise started around 7:00 a.m., and saw ZGL deploy one of its boom atomisers together with a disinfection crew with knapsack spraying...
AstraZeneca, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has supported the government of Ghana Covid-19 Management Team with 35,000 surgical masks. The donation was made on Wednesday, June 24 through representatives of AstraZeneca, and will help protect frontline health workers in their tireless fight to contain the spread of COVID-19 in...