The Kumbungu District Assembly collaboration with Ghana Health Services and Kings Medical Centre has mapped out a strategy towards the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the new Delta Variant from entering the District. In view of that, some health personnel have been trained and assigned into the communities to...
Women have fared worse during COVID than men as the rural‑urban divide deepens and income falls across sub-Saharan Africa In sub-Saharan Africa, the gender inequities of the COVID-19 pandemic follow different paths but almost always end up the same: women have suffered disproportionate economic harm from the crisis. Rural or urban....
177,600 doses arrive in Ghana On August 5, 2021, the continent announces the rollout of 400 million vaccine doses to African Union Member States and the Caribbean. President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa and African Union (AU) COVID-19 Champion, who made the announcement, expressed excitement at...
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Aryokor Botchwey has lamented about the unavailability of vaccines as a result of vaccine nationalism that has left most developing and least developed countries in a precarious and vulnerable state. According to her, the current state were many developed countries have excess...
The Ministry of Health has announced the procurement of a vaccine storage facility with the capacity to store 10 million doses Pfizer vaccines at a go. They include 58 ultralow temperature vaccine freezers, 50 normal vaccine fridges, 3000 Ice Pack Freezers and 300 cold boxes. The vaccine fridges and...
The General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church, Pastor Mensa Otabil says the COVID 19 pandemic presents the finest moment for Third World countries in Africa to become industrialized. Speaking at the first night of Greater Works Conference 2021, Pastor Otabil explained that it takes disruptions for opportunities to...
In view of the fact that the highly transmissible strain of COVID-19 which originated from India - the Delta variant - has also been detected in the country, Ghanaians have to brace themselves for a surge in COVID-19 cases. Ghana is currently in its third wave of infections, and health...
The Manager of Vector Control Unit of Zoomlion, Rev Ebenezer Kwame Addae, has underscored the need for a massive disinfection across all public places in the country in the wake of an imminent third wave of the malignant coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. He explained that such an exercise was necessary to...
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, distort economic principles, create divergence in capital growth, ruin the lives of people and cause a steady global recovery from fiscal and monetary space, it is imperative that countries continue to implement sustainable and renewable measures that will propel economic...
The Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) has entreated its members who may have resumed full operations to return to the shift system and make space for social distancing, as the country is currently experiencing a third wave of COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. In a press statement signed by CEO Alex Frimpong, the GEA...