Almost three billion people still rely on open fires or inefficient stoves to cook, filling their homes with harmful smoke and increasing their vulnerability to respiratory infections. People exposed to air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 than people living in areas with cleaner air, according to a...
An expert in supply and value chain management, Professor Douglas Boateng, has intimated that the best way to fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) is to tailor-make solutions to complement the economic architecture of a country. According to him, globally, there is no ‘one size fits all’ strategy answer to the pandemic....
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut sod for the construction of the first ever 100-bed Isolation and Treatment Facility in the country funded by the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund. The project, which is located at the Ga East Municipal Hospital and Ghana’s National Coronavirus Treatment Centre, is going...
Absa Bank Ghana has partnered the University of Ghana Career and Counselling Centre (UGCCC) to provide online learnings for all their final year undergraduate students through the bank’s ReadyToWork e-learning programme. The partnership which is in line with Absa Bank Ghana’s Education and Skills Development programme under its Force for...
The Nkoranman Rural Bank Limited at Seikwa in the Tain District of Bono Region has donated sanitary items to various institutions across its catchment area to help stem the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The items, estimated at GH¢10,000 were made up of 25 veronica buckets and accessories, 25...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has scheduled a virtual meeting of Heads of States of member countries to further discuss the coronavirus situation in the sub-region, tomorrow, April 23. The ‘Extraordinary Session’ which be held via videoconference follows an earlier meeting involving the “ministers in charge of...
The Head of Virology Department of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Professor William Ampofo, has said about 30,000 samples have been tested in the past two days, in addition to the total number of tested samples disclosed by the President, in his 7th COVID-19 address to...
Ghana has so far recorded 120 Coronavirus recoveries, with the number of deaths remaining 9, Head of Virology at Noguchi, Prof. William Ampofo has said. The country's total number of positive cases also stands at 1,154. He also noted that close to 30,000 samples have been tested since the President's 7th...
COA Herbal Centre, producer of COA FS - a dietary supplement which supports the immune system to naturally treat and prevent deadly diseases - has hit back at the Food and Drug Authority (FDA), saying their drug is not contaminated.   According to the company, it is surprising that a...
Adansi Rural Bank at Fomena in the Adansi North District of Ashanti Region has presented Personal Protective Equipment, PPE and disinfectants to six health institutions in the banks’ operational territories. The beneficiary health institutions include Benito Hospital in Dompoase-Adansi, Fomena Health Centre and Asokwa Health Centre. Others are Obuasi S.D.A....