Coronavirus Updates
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Ghana set to head into fresh lockdown – Oppong Nkrumah
Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said that if the upward trend of the coronavirus infection in Ghana persists, the president will have no option but to lock down the country. G…
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Ghana has only reported 3 covid-19 cases in schools since resumption – Ghana Health Service
Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service has announced three cases of the coronavirus have been recorded in the schools since last week Monday. Full academic work re…
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St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport air traffic tower shut down due to covid-19 outbreak
The air traffic control tower at the St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport has been closed due to a positive case of COVID-19. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the airport’s control tower will b…
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Biden administration fights for $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan
Officials in President Joe Biden’s administration tried to head off Republican concerns that his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief proposal was too expensive on a Sunday call with Republican and Democrat…
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Mexico’s President test positive for coronavirus
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19 amid the country’s deadliest week yet in the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed the health system…
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U.S. to escalate tracking of COVID variants as confirmed cases top 25 million
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping up efforts to track coronavirus mutations and keep vaccines and treatments effective against new variants until collective immunity is …
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Australia approved Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Australia on Monday approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use but warned AstraZeneca’s international production problems mean the country would need to distribute a locally manufactured s…
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New Zealand announces first covid-19 cases in months
New Zealand on Monday confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in the community in months in a 56-year-old woman, but said close contacts of the recently returned traveller had so far tested negative. Th…
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Ghana’s coronavirus cases skyrocket in just 3 days; six confirmed dead
Ghana has recorded 679 new cases of Covid-19 as of yesterday, Sunday, January 24. This includes Saturday’s cases of 635 and 658 on last Friday pushing the figure to 1,972 in three days. The total act…
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Ghana reports over 600 daily coronavirus infections
Ghana’s COVID-19 active cases have seen a further surge to 2,799 on Saturday following the confirmation of 635 new cases of infections. This is from a previous case count of 2,413, the Ghana Health S…