Coronavirus Updates
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Vaccines: Healthcare workers, over 60s, others first to receive Covid vaccine – Oppong Nkrumah
The Information Minister-designate has disclosed the category of people who will receive the Covid-19 vaccines first as Ghana takes delivery of 600,000 doses, Wednesday. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the …
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[VIDEO] Gov’t receives first consignment of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines
The Government of Ghana today, Wednesday, February 24, 2021, receives the first batch of 600,000 AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra. Watch the video below.
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German Chancellor, Angela Merkel says country in third wave of pandemic
Germany is in a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers in her conservative party, two sources at the meeting told Reuters on Tuesday. “We are now in the third…
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Trade By Barter: Philippines agree to swap its nurses for covid vaccines
The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a senior offici…
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WHO agrees to compensate victims of serious COVAX vaccine side effects
The World Health Organization has agreed a no-fault compensation plan for claims of serious side effects in people in 92 poorer countries due to get COVID-19 vaccines via the COVAX sharing scheme, re…
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Over 60 health workers have caught covid-19 at Savelugu, following mass testing
Over 60 health workers at the Savelugu Municipal Hospital in the Northern Region have tested positive for Covid-19. This follows mass testing of staff of the hospital after an upsurge of cases in the…
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Philippines approve Sinovac Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine
The Philippines has approved Sinovac Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, but will not give it to healthcare workers at risk of exposure due to its varying levels of efficacy, its Food and D…
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Texas governor says state to receive 1m covid vaccine doses next week
Texas will receive almost one million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the coming week, Governor Greg Abbott said on Twitter, adding that the state will catch up for delays during the winter storm. U.S. inf…
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U.S. CDC administers 61.3 million doses of COVID vaccines
The United States has administered 61,289,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Saturday morning and delivered 79,128,495 doses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The tally of vacci…
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‘My spirit visited my home, office’; covid-19 survival narrates
Palgrave Boakye-Danquah, Executive Director at the Kandifo Institute has narrated his near-death experience after contracting COVID-19. According to him, the severity of the virus within his immune s…