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A final year student of the Nalerigu Nurses and Midwifery College as well as another woman have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Nalerigu in the North East Region. The student, according to health officials, returned to school recently from Cape Coast in the Central Region while the  woman was said to have travelled to Nalerigu from Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. Both patients have been quarantined to undergo Covid-19 treatment. Municipal Health Director Mark Abugri, who confirmed the cases, said contact tracing has commenced. North East Region has since the outbreak of covid-19 in Ghana recorded four positive…

The worst-ever outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has officially been declared over, almost two years after it began. No new cases of the disease have been reported in the north-east of the country, where dozens of armed groups operate, since 27 April. Some 2,280 people died since the outbreak began in August 2018. The deadliest outbreak on record was in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 with more than 11,000 deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the end of the outbreak in the east, where insecurity is also endemic, was a cause for celebration as…

Parents and guardians have been asked to provide their children with nose masks and alcohol-based hand sanitisers to complement government’s efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Giving the advice on the sideline of a disinfection exercise at St James International School in the Tema West Constituency, the Tema General Manager of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Seth Appiah Ocran, said the government alone cannot fight the pandemic. Although government is providing each student with three reusable face masks, “…as parents, we must support the government by ensuring that our school-going children have, at least, nose masks and…

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, says his party feels vindicated by the ruling of the Supreme Court in the matter challenging the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) on the decision to exclude the use of the existing voter’s ID cards as proof of citizenship in compiling a new register. The NDC went to court asking the apex court to order the EC to allow eligible Ghanaians use the existing ID cards as proof of citizenship in the planned compilation of a new register for the December 7 elections. Shortly after the Supreme Court gave…

Liverpool moved to within touching distance of their first title in 30 years as Crystal Palace were brutally dismissed behind closed doors at Anfield. Manchester City must now win at Chelsea on Thursday to further delay the inevitability of Liverpool’s coronation as Premier League champions. After the goalless Merseyside derby at Everton on Sunday, they shook off the cobwebs in their first home game since the campaign was halted because of the coronavirus pandemic to beat Palace with almost embarrassing ease. Anfield may have been home to only around 300 people but Liverpool played with familiar intensity, although Palace’s cause…

Volunteers have begun being immunised with a new UK coronavirus vaccine. About 300 people will have the vaccine over the coming weeks, as part of a trial led by Prof Robin Shattock and his colleagues, at Imperial College London. Tests in animals suggest the vaccine is safe and triggers an effective immune response. Experts at Oxford University have already started human trials. The trials are among many across the world – there are around 120 vaccine programmes under way. ‘I volunteered to help beat the virus’ Kathy, 39, who works in finance, is one of the first volunteers taking part…

A constitutional law scholar Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh has described as “illogical”, reasons cited by the Supreme Court to reject an amicus curiae brief in the case against the compilation of a new voters’ register. Some four civil society groups had gone to the apex court seeking to be granted audience in the case to volunteer relevant information to help in the determination of the case filed by the National Democratic Congress and one Mark Takyi-Benson. Their request was dismissed by the Supreme Court Wednesday on grounds that the think-tank groups which have been opposing the move to re-register Ghanaians…

The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has described as unacceptable the demolition of a property at the residence of the Nigeria High Commission in Ghana by some unknown armed men. He said the act is one of aggression perpetrated by the people of Ghana against the Nigerian state. Reacting to a report by the Foreign Affairs Minister of Nigeria, Geoffrey Onyeama, conveying the apologies of Ghana to Nigeria for the incident, the Speaker of the House said apologies do not suffice and that the issue be put into perspective. “It was not a building that was demolished,…

A group of merrymakers at Salaga in the Savannah Region have attacked police officers called in to enforce covid-19 laws. One of the three officers who were pelted with stones and suffered injuries in the neck area is currently on admission at the Salaga Government Hospital where he is being treated. The incident happened at about 11:00 p.m. Tuesday at Edipe where more than 100 people had gathered and were dancing to loud music in clear defiance of social distancing and mandatory wearing of face mask. Their action, according to the police, was in breach of the imposition of restrictions…