Coronavirus updates As it happens (2020-04-27)
Apr 27, 2020
COVID-19: Zongo Development Fund Supports Zongo Chiefs And Imams In Ashanti Region With Hygiene Products
The Zongo Development Fund has donated hygiene products to Imams and Zongo chiefs in Kumasi as part of efforts to combat the coronavirus Pandemic in Zongo communities.
Among the beneficiaries were the Ashanti Regional Chief Imam, the Kumasi Zongo chief, Tafo Zongo Chief and the Council of Zongo Chiefs.
Apr 27, 2020
Talensi: World Vision Donate PPE To Help Fight COVID-19
World Vision International Ghana (WVI-GH) has presented Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), valued at 3000 US dollars to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to help fight the spread of the coronavirus 2019.
The presentation was made to the Talensi, Kasena Nanakana West and Builsa South District Health Directorates at the World Vision Office at Tongo in Upper East Region.
Apr 27, 2020
Group Demands Proper Protection For Its People In This COVID-19 Pandemic Era
United Freedom Fighters (UFF), a separatist political group in Ghana has called on the Ghanaian government to protect properly the citizens of the territory whose independence they are agitating for, British Togoland in the deadly COVID-19 pandemic era.
In a press release copied to WestAfrica24.com, the Chairman of the group, Mr. Raphael Tettevi lambasted the president of the country, H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo for lifting the lockdown after numerous call on him to not lift the lockdown. According to him, the lockdown is one of the best ways to stop the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
Apr 27, 2020
GMA Laments Poor Distribution Of PPE To Health Facilities As About 13 Doctors Get Covid-19
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has expressed worry over the distribution of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to health facilities across the country in the fight against covid-19.
It follows the confirmation that about 13 members of the group who are medical doctors have tested positive for COVID-19.
Apr 27, 2020
13 Doctors Get Coronavirus
Some 13 Ghanaian doctors are reported to have tested positive for coronavirus in their line of duty.
Media reports say the Ashanti Regional Chairperson of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Paa Kwesi Baidoo, made the disclosure.
Apr 27, 2020
COVID-19: Nima Market To Be Reopened Tomorrow
The Nima market is expected to be reopened tomorrow, Tuesday, for trading activities after it was closed on Friday, April 24, due to the disregard for social distancing by the traders.
The closure of the market last Friday by the Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly did not go down well with the traders who besieged the assembly's head office at Kawukudi to protest the decision.
Apr 27, 2020
COVID-19: Techiman Assembly Procures Face Masks For Residents
The Techiman Municipal Assembly in the Bono East Region has procured 2,000 face masks to be distributed to residents to stem the spread against the novel coronavirus.
The Assembly has also launched a programme dubbed “Operation Wear Your Mask” to encourage and enforce the use of nose masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the Municipality. ,
Apr 27, 2020
Covid-19: Upper East Cases Hit 18 With 10 New Cases
Ten new cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in the Upper East Region.
This brings the total number of cases in the region to 18.
Apr 27, 2020
Nigeria announces lockdown changes
By BBC News
Nigeria’s President Buhari has announced a gradual easing of the lockdown that has been in place in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states for the last month.
The changes will start on Monday 4 May.
Apr 27, 2020
WHO chief defends agency's handling of pandemic
By BBC News
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has defended its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries should have listened to the agency after it declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” on 30 January, when there were 82 cases outside China and no deaths.
"The world should have listened to WHO then, carefully," he told reporters.
"We advised the whole world to implement a comprehensive public health approach, and we said: ‘Find, test, isolate, and do contact tracing.’ You can check for yourselves: countries who followed that are in a better position than others.”
US President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of US funding to the agency after accusing it of “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus”.
Reuters