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2nd Jab of COVID-19 starts tomorrow

August 30, 2021 More than half of the backlog of people awaiting their second shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are expected to take the jab, starting tomorrow. The nationwide exercise, expected to...

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August 30, 2021 / Comments (0)

IMF provides US$1bn in SDR to shore up foreign exchange reserves

August 24, 2021 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will, today, August 23, 2021, make resources equivalent to US$1 billion available to Ghana, in the form of a Special Drawing Rights (SDR)...

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August 24, 2021 / Comments (0)

COVID-19: UK donates 249,000 AstraZeneca doses to Ghana

August 18, 2021 Ghana has today taken delivery of 249,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the United Kingdom. The doses arrived this morning (August 18, 2021) at the Kotoka International...

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August 18, 2021 / Comments (0)

177,000 people to get Johnson & Johnson jab

August 16, 2021 The Ghana Health Service is expected to vaccinate more than 177,000 people with the single dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines in two hotspot regions from today. All persons aged...

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August 16, 2021 / Comments (0)

Govt targets COVID-19 vaccines for 20 million people

August 11, 2021 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the government is on course to vaccinate 20 million of the country’s population against COVID-19 by the end of the year. He said so far...

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August 11, 2021 / Comments (0)

Govt receives 177,600 doses of Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

August 9, 2021 The government has taken delivery of 177,600 doses of the single-shot Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. That brings to 1,515,450 the total number of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine the...

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August 9, 2021 / Comments (0)

MoH receives 10,000 COVID-19 testing machines

August 5, 2021 The Ministry of Health has received 10,000 pieces of COVID-19 testing machines with accompanying reagents from NILEX Company Limited, a multi-national company that deals in medical...

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August 5, 2021 / Comments (0)

President reinforces COVID-19 restrictions – Ban on post-event receptions

July 26, 2021 The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reinforced the ban on all post-event receptions and restricted all mass gatherings to two hours. Delivering his 26th Address to update the...

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July 26, 2021 / Comments (0)

EU begins real-time review of Sanofi-GSK COVID-19 vaccine

July 21, 2021 Europe’s drug regulator said on Tuesday it had started a real-time review of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by French drugmaker Sanofi (SASY.PA) and Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline...

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July 21, 2021 / Comments (0)

COVID-19 vaccine procurement constraints unfortunate — Ofori-Atta

July 15, 2021 The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has described the challenges associated with the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines by developing countries as unfortunate and embarrassing. He...

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July 15, 2021 / Comments (0)