After ravaging the developed world, COVID-19 is now devastating developing and emerging-market countries, most of which lack the medical and financial capacity to combat the pandemic and its economic effects.
For advanced economies, the first line of defense has been social distancing, hand washing, face masks, and widespread lockdowns. But...
The Northern Command of the Ghana Armed Forces has been disinfected against the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease by Zoomlion Ghana.
The exercise which would also take place in the military barracks across the region forms part of the company’s corporate social responsibility is to ensure the safety of the security personnel,...
The final article in the “BOG MPC AND DEFICIT FINANCING” series calls on Parliament to re-examine the revised 2020 Budget and COVID-19 fiscal gaps that it approved to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. The areas to examine include (a) the use of “offsets” to show a lower fiscal...
Over 692,000 young people in the country are set to benefit from the COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Programme (CoRe) which has been launched by the Springboard Road Show in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation and Solidaridad.
The programme, which seeks to support young people in the country in the wake...
The CH Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation has presented a cheque for US$100,000 to the Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund at a ceremony in Accra.
The donation is in support of the construction of Ghana’s first-ever infectious disease isolation and treatment facility.
Cynthia Darko Acquaye, Group Chief Operating Officer of CH...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to report COVID-19 symptoms early to health facilities to avoid death.
Delivering his 13th COVID-19 update to the nation, the President explained that most patients who reported to health facilities late either died on arrival or within forty-eight hours after arrival at...
President Akufo-Addo has announced that from tomorrow, June 29, final year Junior High School students will return to school to prepare and sit for their Basic Education Certificate Examination (B.E.C.E).
Giving further details, the President said JHS3 students will be in school for 11 weeks of preparation and revision before...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said the various schools across the country have already been fumigated and disinfected various quantities of PPE have been provisioned to cater for the students, teachers and non-teaching staff, as they reopen tomorrow.
In all about 750,000 persons, comprising 532,000 JHS 3 students,...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended for three months more, incentive packages for health workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The packages the President noted, are meant to commend health workers for their handwork during the pandemic, and to also encourage them to do more in that regard.
He attributed the...