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China’s ruling Communist Party has set in motion a controversial national security law for Hong Kong, a move seen as a major blow to the city’s freedoms. The law to ban “treason, secession, sedition and subversion” could bypass Hong Kong’s lawmakers. Critics say China is breaking its promise to allow Hong Kong freedoms not seen elsewhere in China. It is likely to fuel public anger and may even trigger fresh protests and demands for democratic reform. The plan was submitted at the annual National People’s Congress (NPC), which largely rubber-stamps decisions already taken by the Communist leadership, but is still…

Government has granted a special request to the government of Kuwait to deport some 245 Ghanaians who are illegally living in Kuwait. They will be arriving on Saturday May 23, 2020 on a chartered flight sponsored by the Kuwait government. Upon arrival, they will be quarantined and attended to under strict supervision at the cost of government, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah revealed on Friday. The minister said government has no plans yet to offer extra support to the deportees after going through the necessary quarantine protocols. The deportation comes at a time when Ghana’s borders remain closed to human…

Source: 3news.com | Ghana

The deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Amidu Issahaku Chinnia, has been attacked by unknown armed gang Thursday night. The incident happened just before 9pm at a walking distance from his Sombo residence in the regional capital, Wa. The attackers, who were on a motorbike approached and inflicted cutlass wounds on the Deputy Minister without any provocation. He was rescued by police motorbike patrol officers and sent to the hospital after sustaining injuries on the right arm, Police in the Upper West Region said in a terse statement. No arrest had been made at the time of filing this report but…

The Ghana Health Service has confirmed the country’s case count at 6,486 after 217 new coronavirus cases were recorded on May 21. Whilst the death toll still stands at 31, a total of 53 more persons have tested negative after two consecutive tests bringing the total number of recoveries in Ghana to 1,951 leaving Ghana’s active cases at 4,504. The Greater Accra Region still tops with the most cases having recorded 4,699 cases, followed by the Ashanti with 988 cases. Three regions are yet to record a case. Regional Breakdown Greater Accra Region – 4,699 Ashanti Region – 988 Central…

Ten suspects in police cells within the Tema Region have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, Commander for the area, DCOP Edward Johnson Akrofi-Oyirifi, has revealed. Nine of them, he said, were from Ashaiman police cells while the other one was recorded in a cell in Kpone. The Regional Commander made the disclosure on the sidelines of a disinfection and fumigation exercise at the Tema Regional Police Command Thursday. He however said none of the police personnel in Tema has tested positive for the disease so far. “Thankfully, all the other inmates who were in the cells with these Covid-19…

Rev. Professor Frimpong-Manso, President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council, has asked members of the religious body not to rush the president into taking a decision to reopen churches in the wake of the increasing numbers of the COVID-19 in Ghana. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise show on 3FM Thursday May 21 that he would have wished that the churches are opened because they can serve as agent for education for the COVID-19, but if the president, in his own wisdom thinks it is not safe to reopen churches, he should be given all the cooperation. As…

On the 19th of April, 2020, my attention was drawn to a post on a colleague journalist’s timeline that read “Just in: Ghanaian preacher Evangelist Emmanuel Kwaku Apraku popularly known as ‘Apraku My Daughter’ kicks the bucket”. I was surprised so I asked my ATWAG (Arts and Tourism Writers Association of Ghana) members if they had heard or could confirm the story, and the response I got was negative. I was relieved that the news was not true. About a month after that, I saw a video on an old school WhatsApp platform about the late Pastor Apraku. In that…

The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly has instituted a Covid-9 voluntary testing for corporate institutions in a drive to manage its spread in the area. In a press release, dated 21st May, 2020 and signed by its Public Relations Officer, John Laste, it rebuffs an allegation on a news website that 8 members of its staff had tested positive for the coronavirus after a compulsory testing of all its staff. The release, titled- RE: EIGHT STAFF OF STMA ALLEGEDLY TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19, states that, 22 people had tested positive out of a voluntary testing of about 268 people from the assembly…

Drugs giant AstraZeneca has announced it is ready to provide a potential new coronavirus vaccine from September. The firm said it had concluded deals to deliver at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, which it is developing with Oxford University. AstraZeneca said it was capable of producing one billion doses of the AZD1222 vaccine this year and next. Initial trials are under way and AstraZeneca said it recognised that the vaccine might not work. But the company said it was committed to advancing the clinical programme. Scientists have warned that a coronavirus vaccine, if developed, might not confer full…