In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic and what is happening across the world and the continent, it is no longer feasible to implement the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on July, 1 as planned.
With the closure of most land and sea borders, as well as airports, it...
Pernod Ricard Ghana, the leading distributor of premium spirits brands has committed an amount of GH¢193,000 to assist government in the fight against COVID-19 in Ghana.
The company announced the amount is dedicated towards the purchase of 5,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) masks to frontline hospital personnel of the Greater...
Sustainable Square, a multinational advisory firm that delivers impact through redefined solutions in the field of social investment, sustainability and environment, has established a sub regional headquarters in Ghana.
The Accra office will serve as a headquarters for the West Africa region and will be led by Henry Treku, a...
GLICO Life Insurance Company Limited (GLICO LIFE) has offered free Hospitalisation Benefit to all its existing and prospective policyholders with effect from 10th April to 31st July 2020.
GLICO Life appreciates the hardship that the COVID-19 pandemic could have on its policyholders and has therefore offered the free Hospitalization Benefit...
The huge health and economic shock that the new coronavirus is delivering to rich countries is also starting to reach deeply into the developing world. But we should not presume that the rich world’s policy responses to the pandemic are best for developing countries, or even feasible. On the...
mPharma, a Ghanaian based Pharmaceutical services company, has presented a mobile COVID-19 testing equipment (Molecular workstation) to the University of Ghana’s Noguchi Institute for Medical Research.
The molecular workstation which costs over US$30,000 is to help Noguchi rapidly test samples of COVID-19 suspected cases remotely in the communities or outside...
Declining coronavirus infection rates and plans to begin easing lockdown measures in some parts of the developed world have provided a ray of hope after weeks of unrelenting gloom. But, for many developing countries, the crisis may barely have begun, and the human toll of a major COVID-19 outbreak...
Institute of Global Health Inc, a USA based non-governmental organisation has held a sensitisation exercise at five farming communities to educate and promote hand washing among households aimed at containing the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The five communities visited were Tianoba, Bugya kura, Bugya pala, Zangum and...
Pharmaceutical firm Ernest Chemists Limited has supported four more hospitals with medical supplies, and presented a cheque for GH¢100,000 to the National COVID-19 Trust Fund to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The company also presented medical supplies such as disinfectants, sanitisers, pain-killers, anti-hypertensives, examination gloves and hematinics...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented human and health crisis. The measures necessary to contain the virus have triggered an economic downturn. At this point, there is great uncertainty about its severity and length. The latest Global Financial Stability Report shows that the financial system has already felt...