February 2, 2021 Ghana has been listed among countries in Africa where a new variant of the COVID-19 is spreading. The continental health body, the Africa Center for Disease Control (CDC), made...
February 1, 2021 The Republic of South Korea has donated COVID-19 laboratory testing equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE), worth $200,000, to the country. The gesture forms part of that...
February 1, 2021 The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has re-imposed restrictions on some daily routines, following the wave of upsurge in COVID-19 cases. Until further notice, therefore, funerals,...
February 1, 2021 Researchers from the School of Public Health at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology have received approval to commence clinical trials of a potential treatment for...
February 1, 2021 The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a new grant of US$12million to the Africa Public Health Foundation, to help expand the geographic coverage of testing and to strengthen contact...
January 29, 2021 The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has advised against the use of an anti-parasite drug called Ivermectin to combat COVID-19. It is being hailed in some quarters as a...
January 28, 2021 Ghana has been ranked 75th out of 180 countries and territories on the 2020 Global Corruption Perception Index (CPI). In a Transparency International (TI) 2020 CPI report published today,...
January 28, 2021 The Ministry of Health (MoH) has decided that public laboratories should not charge sick patients for Covid-19 tests. In a letter dated January 27, 2021, signed by the Acting Chief Director...
January 27, 2021 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued new advice on how to treat patients suffering from COVID-19. For COVID-19 patients at home, the WHO is suggesting the use of a pulse oximetry...
January 27, 2021 The Ghana Health Service (GSH) has sent out an SOS message to companies for them to revisit and intensify their decongestion plans to help break the new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic the...
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