Since the emergence of the novel Coronavirus in the country, Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been addressing the country on an almost weekly basis as he outlines the latest updates in the response to the virus.
In previous addresses, the president shared plans to stop international travel, close...
Governments and policy makers must focus on saving lives and economies at all cost without regard to Debt to GDP ratios. We are in a very difficult time globally. The world is faced with a serious pandemic that’s ravaging all economies. World economic giants are all scrambling to stop...
Since South Africa went into lockdown four weeks ago to slow the spread of the coronavirus, hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either.
“If my mother and father-in-law did not help me, I would be going hungry,” Pillay, a...
The world’s economy is predicted to suffer a significant decline because of COVID-19. Some hard-hit economies will experience a negative growth rate. We are told Ghana’s growth in GDP, which was projected at 6.8 percent, could fall to 1.5 percent. One may ask if we should be concerned with...
The Covid-19 pandemic is by far the most widespread disease outbreak in the twenty-first century. Medical scientists across the globe are relentlessly conducting researches to discover more information on the epidemiology of this disease and possibly come up with a vaccine. Meanwhile, a number of response measures have been...
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic poses a fundamental question: Is this one of those historic moments when the world changes permanently, when the balance of political and economic power shifts decisively, and when, for most people, in most countries, life is never quite the same again? Put...
Tomorrow is May Day, however, Secretary General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Yaw Baah announced the cancelation of the 2020 May Day activities and celebration, citing the coronavirus pandemic as the reason.
Public gatherings are currently prohibited as measures to contain the spread of the deadly COVID-19...
President Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO and Erna SOLBERG, the Norwegian Prime Minister, both Co-chairs of the UN Secretary-General’s Eminent Group of Advocates for the SDGs, have penned down how COVID-19 is not only wreaking havoc to the global community, but also, how it is equally affecting the attainment of...
…A fifth part that lays out the true facts after 80 days as the patterns become clearer
Worldwide perspective: As at April 27, globally, (a) the 3,013,803 total recorded coronavirus (SAR-COV-2) infection cases equate to 0.039 percent of the 7.9 billion global population; (b) the 57,637 recorded serious and critical...