Author: Krobea

Nigeria has recorded its biggest one-day rise in coronavirus cases after confirming 30 new cases on Tuesday. The country has so far confirmed a total of 373 cases including 11 deaths. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had announced 19 new cases of the virus then added a further 11, one hour after the first announcement. The country’s commercial city of Lagos, which is the epicentre of the pandemic in the country, recorded 25 out of the 30 new cases. The NCDC tweeted about the latest cases. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday announced an extension of the lockdown…

Inspector General of Police (IGP) James Oppong-Boanuh has blamed the stiff posture of the security services at various checkpoints enforcing the lockdown directives on recalcitrant citizens. The IGP said some people are giving unsubstantiated excuses to the security services to allow them pass. But such excuses, if allowed, he says, would mar the directives on Covid-19. Government extended the partial lockdown imposed on some four cities of the country by one more week. The extension took effect from Monday,April 13, and will be subject to review. “The decision has been taken through the issuance of another Executive Instrument to extend…

The US Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, has penned an article underscoring the strong partnership between her nation and Ghana in the fight against Covid-19. She states that the help of the US in the fight against the deadly virus, not only in Ghana but also globally, is “much more than money and supplies”. “It’s the experts we have deployed worldwide, and those now conducting tutorials via teleconference. I am pleased that members from my embassy team – from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Naval Medical Research Unit Three (NAMRU-3), U.S. Agency for International Development…

Ghana’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) has cancelled all activities planned for this year’s International Workers’ Day of Solidarity, May Day. The activities would have been climaxed in Accra on Friday, May 1. But a statement issued on Tuesday by TUC’s Secretary General, Dr Yaw Baah, said the celebration has been cancelled in compliance with the Imposition on Restrictions Act, 2020, which has been in force since March 30, 2020 in Accra, Kasoa, Tema and Kumasi. The TUC said as characteristic of May Day celebrations, the Organised Labour National May Day Planning Committee had planned nationwide parades across the regional capitals.…

The Ghana Union of Traders’ Associations (GUTA) has welcomed government’s intervention for businesses in the throes of the coronavirus directives. “The intervention is not only timely but also appropriate in the sense that the issue is not only of health but also of serious adverse effect on every sphere of life; leaving the entire global community in an atmosphere of uncertainty to which everyone can attest to,” said a statement issued on behalf of GUTA by General Secretary Alpha Shaban. It, however, asked for places on the various committees for the leadership of GUTA in order to ensure that the…

Staff of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH) who were put under mandatory quarantine after coming into contact with Nana Osei Boansi Kuffuor, father of popular musician Obour, have all tested negative. Awaiting a test on coronavirus, Nana Boansi Kuffour, whose travel history is said to have been concealed from management of GARH by his family, died at the facility. He died on Friday, March 27. His test results later came out positive, according to officials, prompting an immediate shutdown of the emergency unit of the Hospital while all the staff who came into contact with the deceased were quarantined.…

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the country’s economy has revealed that it is fragile following the “stress test” it has been subjected to by the coronavirus pandemic. He, therefore, called for the need for authorities to be prudent in the management of the sector going forward. Mr Mahama made these remarks on Tuesday, when he made available relief items worth millions of Cedis for distribution to 20,000 households in Ghana. The gesture is his own way of mitigating the effects of the lockdown on many Ghanaians. He said Covid-19 management requires that there is strict prioritization in government’s borrowing…

Bishop Gerald Glenn, the pastor of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Virginia has died, the church announced on Sunday. Glenn had tested positive for coronavirus, according to a video posted by his daughter Mar-Gerie Crawley. Despite warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to avoid mass gatherings and maintain social distancing, Glenn said in a sermon on March 22, “I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus,” and announced he was not afraid to die. It was the next day that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued his executive order banning all public and private gatherings…

As part of the global and national effort in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Philipa Baafi Foundation, owned by ace female gospel musician Philipa Baafi of ‘I go dance’ fame, has gifted some relief items to the government of Ghana and some deprived communities in Accra. President Nana Akufo-Addo in his fifth Covid-19 address to Ghanaians announced that 400,000 individuals in Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Kasoa – where a partial lockdown has been imposed – were to benefit from social intervention programmes such as free food. The Ministries of Gender, Children and Social Protection and Local Government and Rural Development,…

Ghana’s coronavirus case count is now 636. This is 70 more than the previous figure of 566. Seventeen have, however, fully recovered. Among the latest cases confirmed, 605 have been categorised as “mild disease” and are on treatment, according to the Disease Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Significantly, there is none in a critical state despite two categorised as “moderate to severe cases”. There are eight deaths. Ghana first recorded its two index cases of coronavirus on Thursday, March 12. Since then, the number has reached 636. Most of the cases, precisely 268, were recorded as a…