Mining giant, Gold Fields Ghana, has committed more than US$830,000 to help fight the coronavirus pandemic in its operating areas in the Western Region and other parts of Ghana, according to a statement from the company.
Gold Fields, which operates the Tarkwa and Damang gold mines, says it has contributed...
Ghana has recorded 70 new cases of Coronavirus, increasing the total confirmed cases to 636 as of 3pm on Tuesday, 14th, April, 2020. Out of the total confirmed cases, the country has also recorded 17 recoveries with eight deaths.
For the past two weeks, some parts of the country that...
GLICO, the one-stop shop for insurance and financial services in Ghana, has donated various essential items to the Ghana Prisons Service to assist in measures taken to prevent spread of COVID-19.
The essential items included large quantities of Veronica-buckets, gallons of hand-sanitisers, boxes of vitamin C tablets and thermometer guns.
In...
Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020 - the first recession in the region over the past 25 years according to the latest Africa’s Pulse, the World...
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has rolled out a Business Tracker, which is an online survey targetting businesses with the aim of assessing the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in Ghana.
The study will also assess measures put in place by businesses...
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- calls for concerted efforts towards tackling the virus
The President of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV, has urged traditional and religious leaders to support the national efforts toward stopping and containing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in the country.
He said while the role of both traditional and...
FanMilk Ghana Limited, a member of Danone, has made another donation to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana.
Last week, FanMilk presented 15,600 bottles of drinking Yoghurt (FanMaxx) to the Ridge Hospital and the Noguchi Medical Research Institute to support their efforts at fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
On...
Ghana’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation has seen a significant jump by 158 new cases, the highest jump over 24 hours, to currently stand at 566 cases.
According to a tweet by the Diseases Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service the virus has spread to 10 regions of the country’s 16...