Coronavirus Updates
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Australian police investigating attacks on 5G towers by coronavirus activists
Australian police and telecommunications companies are working together in a bid to prevent arson and other attacks on equipment suspected of supporting the rollout of 5G. There have already been thr…
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Markets in Sekondi-Takoradi to shut for a week
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metro and the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipal Assemblies have announced the closure of the Sekondi, Takoradi, Jubilee Park, Kojokrom and Effiakuma Number 9 Markets from tomorrow, Th…
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Eastern Regional Hospital begs for water to treat coronavirus patients
The Management of the Eastern Regional Hospital is appealing to the general public to support the facility with quantities of bottled water to meet the high daily demand for water by coronavirus pati…
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Ghana’s Coronavirus recoveries rises to 2,317 and 34 deaths
The number of persons who have succumbed to the novel Coronavirus in Ghana has increased by two raising the total figure to 34. This was announced by the Ghana Health Service on Tuesday, May 26, 2020…
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Minister suggests police station, cells should be disinfected quarterly
Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has suggested the need for police cells in the country to be disinfected at the end of every quarter of the year. According to him, such a move will not onl…
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ZIMBABWE: 40 people arrested in for breaking lockdown
Two journalists who’d been interviewing alleged victims of state torture are among the 40,000 people that Zimbabwean police say they’ve arrested. Most of those people were arrested for breaking the r…
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UK: Minister resigns over Dominic Cummings’ lockdown scandal
Junior minister Douglas Ross has resigned after Dominic Cummings’ defence of his trip to County Durham during the coronavirus lockdown. The Scotland Office minister said the senior aide’s view of the…
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Krowor employs traditional leaders, others in fight against pandemic
The Krowor Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region is involving chiefs and traditional authorities as well as Imams in Zongos in the catchment area to help in the fight against spread of the c…
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91% of infected patients in Ghana do not have symptoms – GHS Director laments
About 91 percent of people infected by the coronavirus in Ghana do not develop signs and symptoms at all, Dr. Badu Sarkodie, the Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service has said. Accord…
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Coronavirus – WHO suspends clinical trial of Hydroxychloroquine
A clinical trial of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been suspended by the World Health Organisation amid safety concerns, the body’s chief has confirmed. “The executive group has implemented a te…