The country saved GH₵95.7 million or an equivalent of US$16.8 million when she endeavoured to locally manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE) during the heat of the coronavirus pandemic.
This was disclosed by the Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, Robert Ahomka-Lindsay at the Nation Builders update held recently under the theme:...
World Bank Chief Economist Carmen Reinhart has said the coronavirus pandemic is turning into a major economic crisis, and warned of the possibility of a financial crisis emerging.
“This did not start as a financial crisis, but it is morphing into a major economic crisis with very serious financial consequences,”...
The world has experienced several outbreaks of diseases in the past century. All these pandemics had their positive and adverse effects on the world, as well as the lives of individuals. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is no exception.
This pandemic has brought about a total disruption in various activities....
…Workplace communications in the pandemic
Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Samsung and Norwegian telecommunications giant Telenor are but a few of the organisations that ensure that the office spaces are designed in such a way that employees get to “bump” into each other a lot more. In March 2015, Facebook opened the...
Stanford Seed Transformation Network Ghana is set to host the third edition of its annual flagship Business and Leadership Conference on 22nd October, 2020 to empower businesses to embrace changes and seek solutions that will ensure business sustainability and success despite the COVID-19 challenges.
This year’s conference is under the...
The NanoLab Foundation, a subsidiary of the NanoLab Corporation - a USA-based non-profit organization, has sensitised and donated 2,000 face shields to members of the Ashaiman Market Women’s Association and porters to help curb spread of the coronavirus.
The advent of coronavirus pandemic has brought with it restrictions in the...
As Covid-19 keeps me at home
My daddy always keeps me in the zone
Everyday I work and play
If I just do that, it’ll all be okay
Because of Covid-19, we couldn’t go to school
So my teachers and classmates did work online
Now, which is the future of Covid-19
We’re gradually getting fine
Nurses, doctors,...
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt a sense of apprehension about what would happen when it reached Africa. Concerns over the combination of overstretched and underfunded health systems and the existing load of infectious and non-infectious diseases often led to it being...
Many African countries have been praised for waging an effective campaign to combat the spread of coronavirus despite their reputation for having fragile state health systems.
The continent, which has a population of more than one billion, has had about 1.5 million cases, according to data compiled by the John...
West Africa Regional Director, Yara International, Danquah Addo-Yobo, has stressed the need for the agricultural value chain actors to rethink and find sustainable approaches to doing business during and post COVID-19 across the value chain, so that the sector will remain resilient in the face of crisis and became...