Author: Krobea

The number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the country’s outbreak began, authorities have said. As of Monday, there were 108,237 people either being treated in hospital or recovering at home, 20 fewer than the previous day. Authorities say the small but symbolic drop is a “positive development”. Italy’s lockdown continues until 3 May but some businesses have reopened. They include bookshops, stationers and shops selling children’s clothes, as officials see how social distancing measures can be safely applied. Italy has the third-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has explained his decision to lift the lockdown imposed on some cities in the country. He said the decision was as a result of the consistency in data churned out from the enhanced testing carried out by the health workers in the three-week period. According to him, the data gave the same demography as regards the infection rate, death rate, number of infected and those moderately ill and treated, among others. “All those things are remaining quite constant in the data that we have and I think it is that constancy and that robustness of…

Nigeria has confirmed 86 new coronavirus cases and 21 deaths – it highest daily figure so far. Officials say they have scaled up testing and so expect figures to increase exponentially. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has confirmed a total of 627 coronavirus cases and 21 deaths. It has imposed a lockdown in the capital Abuja, the commercial city of Lagos, Ogun state and Kano state. Source: BBC

Zipline, the world’s only national scale on-demand drone delivery service, has announced that it has begun delivering Covid-19 test samples. Zipline drones now fly test samples collected from patients in more than 1,000 health facilities located in difficult-to-reach rural areas of Ghana to Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research laboratories in Accra, the nation’s capital, and Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR) in Kumasi, the country’s second-largest city. The revolutionary new service improves the Government of Ghana’s ability to monitor the spread of Covid-19 more quickly. It is one of several ways Zipline is helping the country respond to the…

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has chastised the president for his decision to lift the restriction on movements in some parts of Ghana. After a three-week partial lockdown in Accra, Kumasi, Kasoa and Tema, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday, April 19 withdrew the restrictions despite insisting “that lifting these restrictions does not mean we are letting our guard down”. There has been mixed reaction over this decision as Ghana’s coronavirus case count has risen beyond 1,000 with less than 100 recoveries. For Sammy Gyamfi, the decision by President Akufo-Addo was politically…

The negative impact of the global Coronavirus lockdown on business and commercial operations around the world is grave. The full damage is incalculable and even at this early stage, the loss runs into multiple trillions of dollars. Productivity has taken a nosedive and full recovery is a very long way.  The skill and business acumen necessary to adapt, survive and thrive in a crisis such as this is an indispensable quality of business leaders. A considerable number of these leaders have deployed interactive videoconference technology to circumvent the lockdown and continue working and being productive. There are many such tools,…

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have told the UK’s tabloid press they are ending all co-operation with them.  In a letter to editors of all the Sun, Mirror, Mail and Express titles and websites, a representative said the pair had taken the step due to “distorted, false or invasive” stories. Harry and Meghan said they refused to “offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion”. The couple have relocated to California after stepping back as senior royals. In the letter, the couple’s public relations representative wrote it was “gravely concerning that an influential slice…

Record Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan answered your questions through Juliet Bawuah on the TV3 Twitter page on all subjects from his time in the Ghana Premier League, that penalty miss, his regrets and when he is coming it quits. On missing out of GPL Goalking I was ready coming into the league at the age of 17yrs so I was able to fit in very easily. But what I regret is, not being the top scorer in the 2003 Ghana Pemier League because I was going for trials during that time, which affected it; I still managed to be third…

Police in the Upper West Region took less than 48 hours to fish out a Nigerian who was on the run after knowing his status as regards the novel coronavirus. Simon Okafor Chukudi escaped from self-isolation at his residence in Wapaani despite testing positive for coronavirus. The Upper West Regional Police Command, consequently, mounted a search for him. He was arrested on Friday around the Wa Polytechnic. He has been handed over the Covid-19 task force and sent to the new regional hospital under heavy security. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

Member of Parliament for South Dayi Constituency in Volta Region Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor, who doubles as a lawyer, has disclosed that the Ministry of Communications spent GH¢1.4 million on the Virtual Concert that followed the launch of the Covid-19 Tracker app. On Monday, April 13, the Ministry of Communications led by Ursla Owusu-Ekuful launched the app as part of efforts to track coronavirus. Users can check for coronavirus symptoms, answer questions on coronavirus and also help report suspected cases. It was followed by a virtual concert which saw Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale, Kuami Eugene alongside Dada KD, Great Ampong,…