Author: Krobea

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against complacency in the fight against the coronavirus, saying the disease “will be with us for a long time”. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also warned of upward trends in Covid-19 cases in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central America and South America. He said that lifting lockdowns could cause infections to “reignite”. Dr Tedros also defended the WHO’s handling of the pandemic. He said he believed the UN agency had warned the world of Covid-19 early enough. “Looking back I think we declared the emergency at the right time and when the…

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has explained that it has not given approval for increment of transport fares in the country over the measures taken by the government in fighting against the coronavirus pandemic. The GPRTU said currently all transport fares remain the same even though the measures announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is having a dire consequence on commercial drivers. President Akufo-Addo on March 15, 2020 placed a four-week ban on public gatherings, including religious activities and funerals. The President by Executive Instrument (EI) 64 also directed the reduction of number of passengers onboard commercial…

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and the Achimota Divisional Police Command have apprehended two Chinese nationals at Kisseman, a suburb of Accra, for producing unregistered Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs). The two, a man and his wife, have been producing the PPEs in commercial quantities without approval from the FDA. The arrest was based upon a tip-off. The Head of Drug Market Surveillance Department at the FDA, Edward Prah Ashong, who confirmed the arrest to Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Thursday, explained that “it is true we have arrested some Chinese like that and investigations are ongoing”. He said “we…

Coach J E Sarpong has revealed that the former Technical Director of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Francis Oti Akenteng, was not respected by the Association. He said there were instances where coaches were selected for the various national teams without his consent but he pretended to be aware because he was protecting his job. In an interview with Frank Osei Owusu Winter on Onua 95.1FM on Wednesday, the former Asante Kotoko coach said during the era of the Normalisation Committee, Oti Akenteng was traveling with the Deputy General Secretary of GFA, Alex Asante, who doubled as the Head of…

Tension is brewing in East Legon in Accra between the only Independent Presidential Candidate in the 2016 election, Jacob Osei Yeboah, and some unknown persons who are said to be from the seat of government over the ownership of four plots of land situated at East Legon. Mr. Osei Yeboah is said to have threatened to storm the site with macho men to defend and secure the land he claims he bought legitimately in 2009 from the rightful owners. The land in question is located at Lake Side Estate, along the Tema Motorway, around the East Legon Police Station. Currently,…

Nigeria has recorded 91 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the country’s total number to 873. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control said 74 new cases were recorded in the commercial capital, Lagos, which remains the epicentre of transmission with more than 500 cases. The capital, Abuja, now has 119 cases while Kano state has 73 cases – the highest in northern Nigeria, where state governors have now banned Koranic schools to curb the spread of the virus. Nearly 200 people have been discharged so far in the country while 28 people have died of the disease. Source: BBC

The Chairman for Kantamanto Used Cloth Sellers Association in the Greater Accra Region, Evans Ofori, has called on government to urgently deploy the military to monitor and enforce the social distancing protocol at market places. His call comes in the wake of how the general public has ignored social distancing at market places after government lifted the partial lockdown. Evans Ofori made the call while speaking to Onua 95.1 FM in an interview and cautioned if care is not taken, Ghana could awfully be affected or hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. He wants government to charge metropolitan, municipal and district…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed a strong desire to bring life back to normal in Ghana. He said the current situation cannot linger on forever. “Ghana will not always be in this situation. That cannot be the case. We have to come out of this situation.” President Akufo-Addo made this desire known on Wednesday, April 22 when he met leadership of the Muslim community in Ghana at the Jubilee House. It comes two days after he lifted the lockdown imposed on Accra, Kumasi, Tema and Kasoa as part of efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. “As we try…

One of Ghana’s testing laboratories for coronavirus, Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research (NMIMR), says the country could soon hit the 100,000 mark as regards tests. “Don’t be surprised if we say we have tested 100,000 samples in Ghana,” Professor William Ampofo, the Head of Virology at NMIMR, said on Wednesday. He added that there has been a boost in staff strength across the various testing centres in the country affording them the opportunity to run a 24-hour service. Prof Ampofo made this known while addressing journalists at a media briefing in Accra organised by the Ministry of Information to…

Ghana has recorded 112 additional cases of Covid-19 since the last update by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday. The new cases take the total tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country to 1,154. This was announced on Wednesday, April 22 by the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, at a media briefing in Accra. He also announced that 120 patients have fully recovered from the virus. These are cases recorded from the backlog of tests done on samples. Ghana recorded its first two cases of the viral disease on Thursday, March 12 and since…