Ghana’s COVID-19 cases have increased by 125 cases to 1,279 even as the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions mandating the wearing of mask in public. The current data show that the number of death cases has jumped to 10 but recoveries have also seen improvement from 120 to 134. According...
Op-Ed by Dr. Jacqueline Applegate, President of Global Vegetable Seeds & Environmental Science at Bayer World Malaria Day is observed on 25 April each year to raise awareness of the global burden of the disease. However, this year, as the world’s attention focuses on COVID-19, it would be easy...
The Nungua Warehouse Ghana Limited has donated some items to the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority to aid the Port Authority’s fight the spread of COVID-19 in the Port. The Warehouse is one of the lessees of the Port Authority in the business of importing liquid bulk through pipelines into...
Do you run a physical business and you are concerned about business sustainability due to stricter labor regulations in an attempt to contain this pandemic? Here are nine (9) ways you can stay in business: Review your business processes and departments Coronavirus has certainly brought about the need for enterprises...
How did we get here? Suddenly the world as we knew it came to a grinding halt and tottered on the brink of despair. In a swift moment, our sanity became questioned, our livelihoods and freedom of movement threatened by an invisible enemy called Corona that spread fear and...
The Northern regional director of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), Dr. John Bertson Eleeza, has stressed the need for the public to collaborate with GHS and state agencies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. According to him, the collaboration with authorities will help curb the issues affecting lives and the economy...
Sekyere Rural Bank Limited at Jamasi in the Sekyere South District of Ashanti Region has presented Personal Protective Equipment, PPE, and disinfectants to three hospitals in the bank’s operational territories. The beneficiary health institutions include Jamasi Health Center, Agona Asamang SDA Hospital and Pope John Paul ll Medical Center at...
As part of efforts to stem imminent outbreaks and spread of the novel coronavirus, the Techiman Municipal Assembly in the Bono East Region has resolved to create eleven temporary satellite market centres to ease congestion at the city’s main trading centre. The creation of satellite market centres will be preceded...
The world is at risk of widespread famines "of biblical proportions" caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned. David Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), said urgent action was needed to avoid a catastrophe. A report estimates that the number suffering from hunger could go from 135...
The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government will be holding an extraordinary session through videoconference scheduled for this morning at 10am Universal Time. The Heads of State will be discussing the ‘Situation and Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in the ECOWAS Region’. The Ministers in Charge of Finance...