Coronavirus updates As it happens (2020-05-11)
May 11, 2020
Covid-19: Madagascar Blast WHO For Not Endorsing Its Herbal ‘Cure’
President Rajoelina said World Health Organisation (WHO) has shut eyes because a drug to combat COVID-19 has been discovered by a poor African country.
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has slammed the World Health Organization for not endorsing its COVID-19 herbal cure.
May 11, 2020
Covid-19 Lockdown: Two Hotels Demolished In Nigeria ‘For Breach Of Rules
The authorities in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern Rivers state have reportedly demolished two hotels over an alleged breach of lockdown rules intended to contain the spread of coronavirus.
State Governor Nyesom Wike, who supervised the tearing down of Edemete Hotel and Prodest Home on Sunday, said the operators had flouted an order that hotels should be closed.
May 11, 2020
COVID-19 Trust Fund Gathers Over Ghc44million – Sophia Akuffo
Over GHs44 million has so far been donated to the National COVID-19 Trust Fund.
This was disclosed by the Chairperson for the Fund, Sophia Akuffo when she handed over 12 vehicles to public hospitals and laboratories involved in the testing and treatment of COVID-19 cases today, Monday.
May 11, 2020
TV3 Presents Roundtable Discussion On 60 Days Of Covid-19 In Ghana
On 12th March, 2020, Ghana’s Minister of Health Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu announced at a press conference that Ghana had confirmed its first two cases of the Novel Coronavirus; both cases, he noted, were imported.
Since then there have been several measures taken by the government to manage the virus, including ban on social gathering, partial lockdown, enhanced testing, contract tracing, stimulus packages, public education on protocols and compulsory wearing of masks.
May 11, 2020
Covid-19: God Will Save Us If We Adhere To Safety Measures ― Assemblies Of God Pastor
The head Pastor for Calvary Temple Assemblies of God Church at Bantama in the Kumasi Metropolis Rev. Dominic Owusu has maintained that only God can save Ghana from the deadly coronavirus which is now threatening the lives of citizens in the country.
According to him God in his own wisdom will not leave his children at the mercy of the virus to defeat them .
May 11, 2020
Let's Support Govt Fight Against COVID-19 — NGO's To Ghanaians
Two Non-governmental Organizations, Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) and Abrono Organic Farming Project (ABOFP) have appealed to the general public to strictly observe government's directive on social distancing, washing of hands under running water, and proper hand sanitizing in order not to contract the deadly virus.
The Executive Director of Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development, Mr Bernard Guri indicated that the fight against the pandemic is a global issue hence all hands should be on deck in the fight against the virus.
May 11, 2020
Nigeria: COVID-19: Government Must Make Policies To Curb Community Transmission As Lockdown Is Lifted
Clearly, Nigeria has climbed the plateau of the Coronavirus crisis with the daily upsurge in the confirmed cases and deaths. Nearly the entire 36 states and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are on the infected case chart.
COVID-19 contagion is also now at the community transmission stage. Instructively, this stage of the pandemic is the most dreaded phase because of the potential bigger humanitarian crises that may result if the rate of spread is not curtailed with speed.
May 11, 2020
Your Draconian Measures To Fight Coronavirus Will Prove Counterproductive If... Abe Tells Wike
Former representative of Rivers South-East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe has warned that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike's draconian measures to fight against the spread of Coronavirus will prove counterproductive if he fails to give his policies a human face.
This is as he stated that the war against the pandemic is fundamentally about collective humanity and therefore must be fought on strictly humane and just terms.
May 11, 2020
“La” COVID is feminine, suggests prestigious French Academy
The Académie Française, the official guardian of the French language, decided that it is “preferable” that the Covid-19, the disease caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus is feminine - to be used with the article "la" not "le.” It may spell the end to the widespread practice in France of referring to it as masculine.
"The use of the feminine would be preferable," the Academie Francaise said in a directive published on its website under the category "faulty use".
May 11, 2020
French hairdressers brush away blues to boost Covid-19 economy and morale
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire administered haircuts to his three sons during lockdown and admitted the result "doesn't look great". He's a fan of hairdressers and signalled early on that they'd be among the first shops to re open.
Hairdressers opened their doors in France on Monday for the first time in 55 days as part of the push to restart the nation.