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Zoomlion Ghana Limited has begun mass disinfection of over 115 police stations and facilities in the Western region. The nationwide exercise which is on-going in all the regions is geared towards protecting Police personnel and their families who are assisting frontline workers in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic. The exercise commenced on Monday, May 18 at the Western Regional Police Command in Sekondi, and at the Rapid Deployment Force in Takoradi where spraying gangs of Zoomlion Ghana Limited displayed modern motorized spraying machines among other logistics ready to complete the task within six working days. Western Regional Manager of…

Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, the Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), on Tuesday, said the late release of the test results of infected persons accounted for the increase in infections at Obuasi. The authorities, he said, had very little idea of the magnitude of the infection rate until the release of the backlog of the positive results for cases in the Municipality, last week, by the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), which had been overstretched with workload.Before their results were returned positive, the individuals who showed no symptoms of the disease were not been properly isolated…

World Health Organization (WHO) member states have agreed to set up an independent inquiry into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. The resolution, approved without objection by the WHO’s 194-member annual assembly meeting virtually in Geneva, also allows for the inquiry to look into the health body’s own role. The United States in particular has been highly critical of its response. The EU presented the resolution on behalf of 100 nations. What is in the resolution? It calls for an “impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation” of the international response. This will also focus on the WHO’s “timelines pertaining to…

The Principal of Jackson College of Education, Mrs. Theodosia Jackson is advocating a deliberate state policy aimed at investing in e-learning infrastructure to incorporate distance learning in Ghana’s education system beyond COVID-19. She said, the coronavirus pandemic has brought to the fore, the urgent need to pay attention to e-learning as a country to complement the existing face-to-face system of interaction in order not to curtail academic work during such national crisis. “We must make distance learning an integral part of our education system at all levels post COVID-19. This will ensure easy access to tuition through virtual classes in…

Isaiah Kwadwo Ampong, one of Ghana’s renowned gospel artistes, has debunked reports that he had said the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has neglected him. Great Ampong, speaking in an interview on Akoma FM’s Entertainment 360 show with Tony Best, revealed that, contrary to reports, he hasn’t told anyone that the NPP has neglected him. “I read the story too and didn’t get bothered to respond because one of Ghana’s former Presidents told me not respond to any story I hear about me if I know it isn’t true and due to that I have stayed mute when I heard…

A group calling itself Private School Teachers Association of Ghana has joined the move by the four recognised teacher unions to kick against the reopening of schools by the Ghana Education Service (GES). Teacher unions in Ghana want schools to remain closed even if the ban on public gatherings is lifted by the President, following the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the country. Speaking on Akoma FM’s Adekyee Mu Nsem programme, on Tuesday, the National President of the Private Schools Teachers Association, James Ackon, asserted the need for the government and the GES to consider the health implications on…

Waste management giant Zoomlion Ghana Limited has begun disinfecting police installations in the Ashanti Region against the deadly novel coronavirus as the country’s infections nears 6,000. A total of 158 police installations within the region are to be disinfected and also fumigated against bedbug infestation, rodents and other dangerous insects within the next five days. Facilities benefiting from the Police-Zoomlion Nationwide Fumigation and Disinfection exercise are police stations, police cells, police administration blocks and bungalows for police personnel. The mass spraying exercise in the region which kick started from the Police regional headquarters in Kumasi Tuesday saw Zoomlion personnel undertake…

Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has justified the decision by the Police to force people within the Kumasi metropolis to undertake community service as punishment for defying a directive to wear nose masks in public places. Scores of people, mostly commuters and commercial drivers who failed to wear nose mask as directed by the Ashanti Regional Security Council as part of the covid-19 protocols, were handed ‘instant justice’ by the Police in the metropolis. At least some 30 people who flouted the directive were forced to handpick rubbish while others were made to sweep the streets to serve as deterrent…

World-renowned reggae musician Everton Blender says the current stock of reggae and dancehall artistes pushes the youth into armed robbery and quick money venture. The popular musician, known in real life as Everton Dennis Williams, was of the view that any song of recent times picked at random and compared to songs of the same genre from the past are pale in comparison on all fronts. The legendary reggae artiste, who has been in the reggae fraternity for over 40 years, said unlike the good content they produced in the ’70s that focused on culture, Africa and the unity of…

Nana Yaa Jantuah, Vice Chair of the Consumer Protection Agency, has noted that there is lack of supervision in ensuring that all Ghanaians benefit from the free water supply to homes as one of the reliefs by the government to deal with the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. She told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise show on 3FM Tuesday May 19 that people are complaining that they are not benefiting from the programme weeks after the implementation She attributed this to a lack of supervision by authority. President Akufo-Addo in his televised address to the nation announced that for the…