Author: Krobea

Italy’s government has signed a decree that will allow travel to and from the country from 3 June, as it moves to ease its coronavirus lockdown measures. It will also allow travel between the regions – which has so far been tightly restricted – from the same day. The move marks a major step in the country’s efforts to reopen its economy after more than two months of lockdown. Italy has one of the highest death tolls in the world, but its infection rate has fallen sharply in recent days. More than 31,600 people have died with the virus in…

Customers of the Salaga branch of the GCB Bank are in a fix after samples of staff were taken for tests. Information available to 3news.com from Salaga indicates that the samples were taken after one of the bankers (name withheld) was suspected of carrying the virus. Some of the customers who spoke to the news team on grounds of anonymity are unhappy about the situation. They expressed disappointment in the Municipal Covid-19 Emergency Response Committee for allowing the bank to operate after the incident. They are afraid there will be a possible spread should the results of some of the…

The Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health (GCNH) is alleging that some religious groups are trying to put pressure on government to relax the measures put in place to curb the spread of coronavirus. “We do not support this at all,” the Coalition said in a press release issued on Wednesday, May 13. This comes after GCNH conducted a survey across the country on the impact of the measures so far in the combat against the viral disease. It observed, among others, that there is a “huge” misconception around the use of the face masks. “This is dangerous for Ghana,…

A 15-year-old coronavirus patient has escaped from an isolation centre in the Upper West Region of Ghana after being granted permission to go out. The incident occurred Thursday, May 14. Explaining how it happened in an interview with Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Friday, May 15, the Acting Regional Health Director, Dr Damien Pungayire, said the boy asked permission to go out and was allowed. But he has not returned since then, reports say. When Dr Pungayire was questioned about the gravity of the situation, he withdrew his comment and said: “It was an error that I…

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has responded to recent allegations levelled against it by the country’s largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Prime among the allegations is an existing collusion between the NIA and the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to rig the December 7 elections in favour of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In a statement issued by its Head of Corporate Affairs, ACI Francis Palmdeti, the Authority said the allegations made by NDC’s National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, on Thursday, May 14 cannot be true as NIA is not part of the elections management architecture of the country.…

After recording an imported case of Covid-19 from Nkwanta in the Oti Region, the Kpandai District Assembly in the Northern Region has intensified education and provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other materials to combat any spread of the virus. The Assembly is also considering procuring more nose mask for residents. The District in April this year recorded an imported case of Covid-19. The patient, a male, was one of the 13 persons who tested positive at Nkwanta en route to the north from Accra. The situation, according to the Kpandai District Assembly, brought fear and panic to the…

The Paramount Chief of the Manya Krobo Traditional Area, Nene Sakite II, has destooled the Paramount Queen mother of the Area, Nana Aplam II, 3news.com has gathered. Sources close to the Manya Krobo Paramountcy say the Paramount Chief announced the immediate destoolment of the Queen mother for “betrayal” before a meeting of chiefs and elders of the Area on Monday, May 11. Reasons for the destoolment of the Queen mother are linked to her recent marriage to a man from the Manya Division. The Queen mother’s husband hails from the Manya Division, headed by the Divisional Chief of the Area,…

Leader of the National Hawkers and Informal Vendors Association Madam Juliana Brown Afari has revealed that the market areas, especially in the capital city, have not received enough education on the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. She told Alfred Ocansey, the host of the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Friday, May 15 that the only platforms the market women seemed to be getting some form of education from are the televisions and radio stations. This, she said, is a problem for them because the education done on radio and television are broadcast in English, a situation that is cutting them…

A Covid-19 patient, Seyram Avotri, who has been sent to the Pentecost Isolation Centre in Gomoa Fete in the Central Region, has said they are made to exercise regularly on the corridors and staircase at the centre. A mental health nurse at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Seyram Avotri said they are only allowed to have access to the corridors and the staircase within the center but not the streets. He recounted on Sunrise on 3FM Friday, May 15 that the first day they arrived at the Centre, they were given materials to work. “We also exercise regularly, we use the…

Health workers at facilities in the Western Region have threatened to lay down their tools if they do not get personal protective equipment (PPEs) to work with. The non-availability of PPEs at hospitals across the Region has forced some of the facilities to continuously reschedule the sample taking of contacts traced from confirmed Covid-19 cases. Persons who are supposed to take the samples have resolved to pick the samples only if they have the right PPEs on. “What do you think will happen to us if we attend to positive cases without PPEs…Obviously, they want all of us to test…