Coronavirus Updates
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Govt is busy ‘romancing’ actual figures of covid-19 deaths – Mortuary keepers
The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has questioned statistics on Covid-19 casualties government has been reporting. The mortuary attendants disclosed that the number of Covid-19 deaths …
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NDC pushes for investigation into $150 covid testing contract
The Minority caucus in parliament will continue to demand a formal probe into the “opaque and illegal” contract relating to coronavirus testing at the airport. This is according to North Tongu MP, Sa…
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Over 30 nurses at KATH test positive for covid-19 despite wearing PPEs
Reports indicate that some health personnel administering treatment to COVID-19 patients in the various hospitals and isolation centres have been infected with the virus in the line of duty, despite …
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June is too far, Ghanaians need coronavirus vaccine ASAP – Haruna Iddrisu to Akufo-Addo
Member of Parliament for the Tamale South Constituency, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to go beyond his usual updates on measures his government has put in plac…
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GMA says 7 doctors have died from coronavirus so far
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has said seven doctors have so far died of COVID-19 since it emerged in the country. Five of the doctors died last year while two passed this year, President of th…
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Over 17 million coronavirus vaccine doses to be available in Ghana by June – Akufo-Addo
By the end of June 2021, a total of 17.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses would be procured for Ghanaians through bilateral and multilateral means, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. In a …
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First batch of coronavirus vaccine to arrive Ghana by March
President Akufo-Addo has noted Ghana will receive its first batch of COVID-19 vaccine by March this year. According to him, government is hoping to vaccinate the entire population beginning with 20 m…
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All ECOWAS nationals must be charged $50 for covid test; non-ECOWAS to pay $150 – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has indicated that “the cost of the COVID test for in-bound ECOWAS nationals be pegged at fifty United States dollars ($50) at the Kotoka International Airport (…
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All Ghanaians are entitled to free coronavirus tests – Akufo-Addo reiterates
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated that coronavirus testing for Ghanaians in the country is free. He repeated this decision by the government in his 23rd address to the nation on th…
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Ghana hospitals run out of space as records show 416 new Covid-19 deaths – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that Ghana’s hospitals are full, owing to the increasing number of coronavirus infections in the country. He said isolation centres have been re-act…