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The Covid-19 pandemic has injected an unprecedented amount of uncertainty into the global economy, as countries across the world battle growing infections, implement wide-ranging social-distancing strategies and attempt early fiscal interventions to stabilise markets. While managing the immediate health crisis is vital and necessary for economic stability, experts have already begun assessing how a recovery might look once the virus is contained and which countries stand to bounce back best. To better understand this, we turned to the 2019 Global Resilience Index by insurance company FM Global, which ranks the resiliency of the business environment across 130 countries, based on…

Keda ceramics Ghana and Sunda International, dealers in fast-moving consumer goods have donated five hundred thousand Ghana Cedis (GHc 500,000.00) in cash and one hundred thousand Ghana cedis worth of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to the National COVID-19 Trust Fund. At a brief ceremony at the Jubilee House to make the presentation at the office of the Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Osei Opare, the Managing Director of Keda Ceramics Ghana, Li Wei, said his outfit is impressed with Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic so far. He indicated that his company is committed to supporting the government in every…

Rapper Sarkodie has dismissed assertions that the time was not right for him to release his ‘Sub Zero’ diss track. The award-winning musician noted that activities in the creative space cannot come to a halt simply because there is a pandemic. The ‘Anadwo’ hit singer was replying dancehall artiste Shata Wale who said he was very disappointed in Sarkodie for releasing a diss song at a time that the world is currently battling the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19). Reacting to the song in an interview on TV3 New Day with MzGee on Tuesday, the Shatta Wale said he was disappointed. “Sarkodie…

The Ministry of Health has defined frontline health workers as personnel working and managing the 56 coronavirus treatment centres across the country as well as those from the three laboratory institutions leading the testing for the deadly virus. Also, staff of the National Ambulance Service have been categorised as part of the frontline health workers who will enjoy the 50 per cent pay increment announced by the government for covid-19 frontline health workers. President Nana Akufo-Addo in his 5th address to the nation on the deadly coronavirus outbreak in Ghana announced that all health workers will be exempted from tax…

Former President Kufuor has urged Ghanaians to comply strictly with government’s directives on the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19). The former President said it would be unpatriotic for any citizen to go contrary to the directives, endangering their own lives. Ghana has recorded 287 cases of the corona virus with five deaths as at April 8, 2020. Speaking in an interview on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Wednesday, former President Kufuor said in Twi: “the President, Nana Akufo-Addo and his government have done well. God has been kind to us. He has given us a President who is helping in…

To save needy women from the negative effects of a potential scarcity of menstrual hygiene products in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ghanaian menstrual hygiene supplies company, Sincerely Ghana Limited, has presented 2000 pieces of ‘Sincerely’ sanitary pads to needy women in parts of the country. Miss Universe Ghana 2017, Ruth Quarshie, on behalf of Mrs. Menaye Donkor Muntari, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sincerely Ghana Limited, presented the items to the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs. Cynthia Morrison at the weekend. The gesture, according to Mrs. Muntari, was in response to the national call to…

The US recorded the most coronavirus deaths in a single day with more than 1,800 fatalities reported on Tuesday. It brings the total number of deaths in the country to nearly 13,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The US has more than 398,000 confirmed cases, the highest number in the world. Global cases have exceeded 1.4 million. However during a press conference President Donald Trump said the US might be getting to the top of the “curve”. Meanwhile the city of Wuhan in China, where the infection first emerged, ended its 11-week lockdown. The new figures announced on…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says government is making efforts to arrive at an acceptable definition of “Frontline Health Workers.” He has therefore called on the leadership of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to make inputs into the definition “that makes sense for everybody.” He said this at a meeting with the GMA leadership at the Jubilee House in Accra on Tuesday. President Akufo-Addo’s announcement of some packages for frontline health workers last Sunday has been met with debates as to which category of health care workers were qualified to enjoy those packages. The President had said that “”An insurance…

The Eastern Regional chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has distributed 50 pieces of locally manufactured nose masks to some media personnel in the region to protect themselves from contracting the deadly coronavirus. A deputy Regional Surveyor at the Eastern Regional Lands Commission, Nana Domena Antwi-Berko and his friends donated the nose masks to the Association. The masks, made from African prints, is said to be reusable as they can be washed with detergent and dried. The Association said on Tuesday that it is working to secure another batch of nose masks to support frontline journalists leading the coverage…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended the appreciation of the nation to all health workers across the country for the continued sacrifices they are making in caring persons who have contracted coronavirus and the sick in general. “…I appreciate, and the country appreciates very much, the work that you are doing,” he told the leadership of the Ghana Medical Association April 7 at the Jubilee House in Accra He explained the meeting was also “to encourage you that, at this stage more than at any time in your professional career, you will really be standing up for the people…