Coronavirus Updates
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Parents storm Accra Girls SHS to withdraw wards as covid-19 breaks out
Parents of final year and second year Gold track students of the Accra Girls Senior High School are demanding an immediate vacation of their wards following the alleged outbreak of COVID-19 in the sc…
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Sefwi-Bodi District confirms first coronavirus case
The Sefwi- Bodi District in the Western North Region has recorded three COVID-19 cases, being its first reported case of COVID-19 in the area. The District’s recording brings to a total of 157 confir…
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Tanzania: Govt shuts down centres handling coronavirus
Tanzania has closed most centres designated to handle Covid-19 patients. The government said that a significant drop in the number of coronavirus infections led to closure of the treatment centres ac…
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Paris’ Louvre museum reopen to visitors
The Louvre museum has reopened in Paris after its closure nearly four months ago due to the coronavirus pandemic. Masks are compulsory, a one-way system is in place and numbers of visitors will be co…
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Malawi: Vice-president, wife take test as secretary dies from covid-19
Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima and his wife Mary have tested negative for coronavirus days after his personal secretary died from the virus. Mr Chilima made the announcement on Monday as the …
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Akufo-Addo begin working from Isolation
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo is now working from isolation after he went on a 14-day quarantine as a precaution when a member of his close circle tested positive for coronavirus. It is not known…
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Malawi: Country calls off Independence Day celebration amid pandemic
Malawi’s new president, Lazarus Chakwera, has called off independence celebrations and further scaled back plans for Monday’s formal inauguration. Both events were due to be marked by a huge jamboree…
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Australia moves to shutdown border over new cases in states
The border between Australia’s two most populous states, Victoria and New South Wales (NSW), is to close after a spike in Covid-19 cases in Melbourne. The outbreak in Victoria’s capital has seen hund…
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India overthrows Russia to make country with third highest covid-19 cases
India has recorded more than 24,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Russia. The country now has the third-largest number of confirmed cases in the world, 69…
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Spain: Officials re-impose lockdown as covid-19 resurrects
Officials in Spain’s north-western region of Galicia have re-imposed restrictions on an area of 70,000 people following a Covid-19 outbreak. Only those travelling for work will be allowed to leave or…