Author: Krobea

The total number of coronavirus cases confirmed in Ghana since Thursday, March 12 stands at 195, the Minister of Health has announced. Out of this, five deaths have been recorded. Greater Accra Region has the highest number of confirmed cases in a regional breakdown with 174. These were made known by Kwaku Agyemang-Manu at a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday, April 1. As of the end of March, Ghana had confirmed 161 cases of the deadly viral disease with the majority from persons put under mandatory quarantine. Briefing the media, Mr Agyemang-Manu said most of the patients have been…

Six more coronavirus patients hitherto on admission at the Ga East Municipal Hospital have been treated and discharged. This brings to 38 the total number of patients discharged. This was made known by the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, at a press briefing on Wednesday, April 1. On Tuesday, March 31, Mr Agyemang-Manu, who is also Member of Parliament for Dormaa Central Constituency, said 31 persons in quarantine had shown signs of improvement and were “on home care”. “We have tested them negative and we have had samples awaiting results,” he stressed. According to him, when the results come and…

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has donated GH¢500 to each of the stranded Kayaye (head porters) who were stopped at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region on their way to the Northern Region. The head porters, numbering about 76, had attempted to flee Accra back to their hometowns in the wake of the President’s order for a partial lockdown in the capital city and other parts of the country, but their journey back home was unsuccessful as it fell within the lockdown time on Monday. Their attempted mass crossover to the north was seen as a threat to stop the…

When we heard that the most dangerous disease in the world now was ravaging China – Wuhan in particular, it seemed too far a place to catch up with us here in Africa. Then, like a smothering fire on a refuse dump the deadly coronavirus burrowed through the globe – not exempting Africa – as though a fox finding a way into the side walls of a hill. This, for months now, all media outlets across the globe have majored in one thing. The reportage on the coronavirus also referred to as Covid-19. From business to sports, entertainment to fashion…

The Savannah Regional Minister and Member of Parliament for Salaga South Constituency, Adam Salifu Braimah, has handed over a newly constructed accommodation block to the East Gonja Health Directorate for use as a holding center in case of any suspected Covid-19 case. The Minister also presented reusable, disposable and Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) worth thousands of Cedis to the Salaga Government Hospital. Speaking at a short ceremony to hand over the facility to the East Gonja Municipal Health Director, Mr. Salifu said the conversion of the facility into a holding center became necessary to position the Municipality better in the…

Former president of French football club Olympique de Marseille, Pape Diouf, has died after contracting coronavirus – the first death in Senegal from the pandemic. The 68-year-old man was being treated at Fann Hospital in the capital, Dakar. Mr Diouf, a Senegalese national who moved to Marseille as a teenager, was president of the football club from 2005 to 2009, according to AFP news agency. A statement on the Ligue 1 club’s Twitter account said: “Olympique de Marseille learned with great sadness of the death of Pape Diouf. Pape will forever remain in the hearts of Marseillais as one of…

Botswana has announced its first coronavirus death just hours after confirming its first cases. The victim was an elderly woman who was discovered to have had coronavirus after her death. Botswana’s Vice-President Slumber Tsogwane said the 79-year-old had travelled to neighbouring South Africa and on returning home she developed a fever. The woman was put under mandatory quarantine at the hospital where she died four days later. Mr Tsogwane said the woman was buried as a person with a suspected infectious disease even before her tests results came out. Her results were announced on Tuesday evening – making her the…

Some residents of Dagombaline, the biggest slum in Kumasi, say the lockdown and social distancing have left many of them with no viable means of getting income. Even though they welcome the intention of government to contain the spread of the Covid-19, the slum dwellers want government to provide the poor with relief items to enable them stay home within the 14-day period. “It’s not easy for us in this era of lockdown. Most of us earn daily income and for this reason we can’t stock up for even one week. Therefore not going to work for 14 days means…

The Northern Region Minister, Salifu Saeed, has revealed that government is facing difficulties in repatriating the ten foreign nationals who tested positive for Covid-19 to their countries.  The Ghana Health Service on Sunday, March 29 announced that the Northern Region capital of Tamale had recorded 10 cases of the novel infectious disease. The cases, eight Guineans and two Burkinabes who traveled from Burkina Faso and Togo through unapproved routes to Ghana, had been kept under state mandatory quarantine since Saturday, March 28. The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, in an interview on New Day on TV3 Monday revealed that government…

Eastern Region is yet to record a case of coronavirus after all but one of 28 suspected cases tested negative. The result of the one is still pending, according to the Eastern Region Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Alberta Adjabeng Biritwum-Nyarko. But she indicated that three out of four persons are under self-isolation after being traced as in the line of contact of one of the infected patients in Accra. “Three of them have so far tested negative and the other one returned to Accra.” Dr Biritwum-Nyarko said so far 33 persons from coronavirus-hit countries are residing…