Coronavirus Updates
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Nigeria: Lagos State suspends reopening of places of worship
The state government responsible for Nigeria’s most crowded city, Lagos, has suspended indefinitely the planned reopening of mosques and churches this weekend as coronavirus cases rise. Nigeria now h…
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Sex workers in Greece return to work under strict guidelines
Greece has seen relatively few cases of coronavirus. According to Johns Hopkins University data, it has recorded 3,148 confirmed infections and 185 deaths, and the government has already allowed busi…
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Kumasi Central Prison records first Covid-19 case
A symptomatic male inmate in the Kumasi Central Prison is in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. It is the jail’s first positive case of coronavirus since the disease was first detected in…
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Coronavirus: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers threaten to halt supply
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana has threatened to withdraw their services by halting the supply of drugs to the various healthcare facilities funded by the National Health Insur…
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COVID-19:Oppong Nkrumah sends get well wishes to NHIA Boss
In a tweet, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said Dr Dsane-Selby was a passionate and hardworking person who was committed to the national cause. He wrote: “I have known Dr Dsane-Selby since my days as a media prac…
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Coronavirus: 350 households ordered to quarantine in Berlin district
More than 50 people are confirmed to have coronavirus and hundreds have been ordered to quarantine after an outbreak in Berlin. The outbreak has led to people living in apartment buildings in the Ber…
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Coronavirus: Government shut down schools in Beijing
Beijing has shut all schools in a sharp escalation of containment measures, as fears that new coronavirus outbreaks could develop into a second wave accelerate. The Chinese capital has suspended on-c…
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California-based company to supply Israel with COVID-19 drug remdesivir
The government has approved the Health Ministry’s acceptance of stocks of coronavirus drug remdesivir from California-based biotech company Gilead Sciences. It was not clear how many doses Israel wil…
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Norwich players who tested Positive now negative
The Norwich player who tested positive for coronavirus has now returned a negative sample, says the club’s sporting director Stuart Webber. The Premier League side confirmed the positive test on Satu…
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Apam in Central Region confirms 19 coronavirus cases
Apam, in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region, has recorded 19 COVID-19 positive cases, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. Mr Cletus Bayor, the Gomoa West District Director of the…