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Christians and Muslims in Ghana have on Wednesday united in their faith with prayer and fasting to seek divine assistance in ending the scourge of novel coronavirus which has triggered health crisis across the globe. It follows the declaration of Wednesday, March 25 as a National Day of Fasting and Prayers by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on March 21. “While we continue to adhere to these measures, and ramp up our efforts to defeat this virus, I urge all of us, to seek the face of the Almighty,” the President encouraged. “I appeal to all Ghanaians, Christians and Muslims,…

The 2019 Queen of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB), Ms Ekua Mends Bannerman, has advocated grooming for young talented girls with passion to become beauty pageants. According to her, grooming is an essential building block of a girl’s personality through which she could learn to be confident to spread her charm and charisma around. The beauty queen who was speaking as a guest judge at the “Face of St. Andrews” contest at the weekend regretted that many young girls have had their dreams shattered simply because they could not receive encouragement and support. The contest was organized by the management…

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The event, due to begin on 24 July, will now take place “no later than summer 2021”. “I proposed to postpone for a year and [IOC] president Thomas Bach responded with 100% agreement,” said Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister. The event will still be called Tokyo 2020 despite taking place in 2021. In a joint statement, the organisers of Tokyo 2020 and the IOC said: “The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of…

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Samuel Nartey George, has questioned parliament’s decision not to suspend sittings in the face of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country. At least 10 MPs and parliamentary staff some of who recently arrived in the country from international trips and suspected to have been exposed to the virus have been directed by the Speaker of Parliament to self-quarantine. Additional measures including provision of hand sanitizers at vantage points in parliament have been introduced while the Speaker of the House works towards relocating from the current chamber to the Accra International Conference Centre. But Mr…

A Ghanaian medical doctor who smuggled himself into the country to avoid a mandatory coronavirus quarantine has been arrested at Sogakope in the Volta Region from where he entered Ghana. The man, who was travellling from the United States of America, is suspected to have entered Ghana through Togo to the Sogakope Inland Border Post where he was finally intercepted by immigration officials. “…significantly, this Ghanaian is a medical doctor. We expected him to know better,” Deputy  Comptroller General of the Ghana Immigration Service Laud Ofori-Afrifa stated at a news briefing Tuesday. Following the closure of Ghana’s borders to human…

An American who illegally crossed into Ghana through the Aflao border in the Volta Region has been arrested and placed under mandatory quarantine for the next 14 days. He was said to have flown through neighbouring Togo on March 20, just two days before Ghana announced suspension of flights into the country and closure of all its borders on the back of the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus. “All our borders; by land, sea and air, will be closed to human traffic for the next two weeks beginning midnight on Sunday,” President Nana Akufo-Addo announced at the weekend, explaining…

A total of 25 Ghanaians under mandatory quarantine have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, bringing the country’s tally to 52. It is the highest ever to be recorded in a day in the country since the first two cases were confirmed on March 12. They were part of 1,030 Ghanaians who have mandatorily been quarantined at different locations in Accra by the government since arriving in the country from midnight of Sunday, March 22. Health personnel have so far managed to take samples from 611 of the total number of people quarantined of which results for 185 have been…

Parents who let loose their children to loiter or engage in petty trading within the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis will be arrested, local authorities have announced as part of measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country. A taskforce set up for roam the metropolis is set to begin its work from today, March 24, Metropolitan Chief Executive Anthony K.K. Sam has announced Monday. “From tomorrow [March 24] we will be going round. Any parent who leaves the child to loiter in town, we will arrest you,” he said in Twi while speaking on the sidelines of…

A policy think-tank, Stranek-Africa, has asked parliament to summon Ghana’s Health Minister to brief Ghanaians on the state of the country’s medical reserve and supplies as cases of coronavirus rise in Ghana.It explained that it has become necessary for Ghana to assess its medical reserve capacity in dealing with the deadly covid-19 pandemic which has infected 27 people and killed persons with more than 590 persons being tracked for suspected infections.The group said not much has been heard about the 8 million-cedi ultra-modern Central Medical Stores project started by the government following the destruction of the old one in Tema…

A man died after ingesting an additive used to clean fish tanks — which included a pharmaceutical drug touted by President Trump and others as a potential coronavirus cure. Within 30 minutes of taking chloroquine phosphate, the man in his 60s experienced “immediate effects” and had to be admitted to a nearby Banner Health hospital, the medical system in Arizona said in a press release Monday. His wife, also in her 60s, is in critical condition after taking the additive, which is used in aquariums to kill some organisms, like algae, that may harm fish. The man’s wife told NBC…