Rapid testing system deployed at KIA
Land and sea boarders remain closed
In a major step to restore the economy to normalcy, the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that from tomorrow, September 1, 2020, the country’s main air border, Kotoka International Airport (KIA), is open to international...
Bank unveils plan to finance entire poultry, rice value chains
Projects GH¢2bn financing for agribusinesses by 2022
Draw partnerships with MoFA, OVCF, GIRSAL to provide cheaper finance
COVID-19 presents Ghanaians with the best opportunity to localise the entire food production value chain in the country, become less reliant on...
The MultiChoice Group is proud to announce its latest initiative in the fight against COVID-19. The group has supported several initiatives in the fight against the spread of the pandemic which continues to wreak havoc across the globe, and it is being acutely felt across Africa.
Early in the spread of...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the ban on social gatherings will be partially lifted on Friday, June 5, 2020 across the country.
He, however, strongly warned that Ghanaians adhere to the protocols such as social distancing and regular hands-washing.
He made this revelation during his 10th address to...
President Akufo-Addo has revealed that 32,000 more persons have undergone testing for COVID-19 and are awaiting results. He made this revelation during his 8th address to the nation on the measures taken against the spread of the Coronavirus disease.
He noted that there are six persons in critical condition with...
A 165-strong international group including 92 former Presidents and Prime ministers have penned an open letter addressed to G20 leaders, demanding the creation of a G20 executive task force and an immediate global pledging conference that would approve and coordinate a multi-billion-dollar coronavirus fighting fund.
Among other concerns, the group...
Coronavirus disease or COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new virus. It has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), with a call on all governments to tackle it with utmost seriousness.
Governments across the world have taken and continue to take various public...
We cannot know how society protects its weakest and vulnerable, those at the bottom of society, from deprivation until a catastrophe such as COVID-19 - the “unseeable, undead, unliving blob”, to use the words of Arundhati Roy - is unleashed on us.
Ghana has a sub-optimal social protection system, its...
In the wake of increasing numbers of positive cases of the novel coronavirus pandemic, some 10,000 people in the country are expected to be tested in the coming week.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in his sixth address to the nation on the update of the coronavirus, explained that 10,000...
The world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, Zipline, has began the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to selected health facilities within its service area in Ghana. This makes Ghana the first country in the world to deploy drones on a national scale to deliver COVID-19 vaccines.
On 23 February,...