Coronavirus updates As it happens (2020-06-14)
Jun 16, 2020
M&G Pharmaceuticals Supports Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund
The Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund has received a donation of GHC51,000 from M&G Pharmaceuticals Limited to support the construction of an infectious disease isolation and treatment facility.
Management of M&G Pharmaceuticals Limited made the presentation at the Ga East District Hospital in Accra, where the facility is located.
Jun 16, 2020
High Schools In Ahafo Region Benefit From Disinfection Against COVID-19
Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Ahafo Region on Tuesday benefitted from the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service and Zoomlion Ghana Limited disinfection programme against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The schools were Boakye Tromo Senior High Technical School, in the Tano-North District, Presbyterian Senior High Shool, Bechem, Bebusco SHS, Serwaa Kesse SHS, Duayaw Nkwanta, Bechem School for the Deaf and Blind etc., all in the Ahafo Region.
Jun 16, 2020
S/R: West Gonja MCE Secures World Vision Support To Deal With COVID-19
The Municipal Chief Executive for West Gonja, Hon. Saaed Muhazu Jibreel has secured the support of World Vision to help combat the spread of the novel Coronavirus in the municipality.
Among others, the humanitarian NGO donated 50 handwashing facilities and accessories and 50 gallons of soap to the municipality.
Jun 16, 2020
COVID 19: CSUC To The Aid Of Kumasi Prisons And Children’s Home
The Christian Service University College in Kumasi has donated nose masks as well as food items including Gari, cooking oil, sugar, and Fruits to the Kumasi Central Prisons to support its COVID 19 Infection Prevention and Control Measures.
From the onset of COVID 19, amnesty was granted some 800 prisoners across the country, but its effect on densely crowded prisons like the Kumasi Central Prisons holding close to 2000 inmates, would not be significant.
Jun 16, 2020
Covid-19: Sissala West District Records 10 New Cases
The Sissala West District of the Upper West Region has recorded 10 new cases of COVID 19.
This brings the total number of cases in the region to 33.
Jun 16, 2020
UK research shows anti-inflammatory steroid cuts Covid-19 deaths by one-third
The commonly used steroid dexamethasone was shown Tuesday to be the first drug to significantly reduce the risk of death among severe COVID-19 cases. The trial results are being hailed as a "major breakthrough".
Researchers led by a team from the University of Oxford administered the widely available drug to more than 2,000 severely ill COVID-19 patients.
Jun 16, 2020
Covid-19, ecology and revolt on the menu for 'Visa pour l'image festival'
The 32nd edition of Visa pour l'image photojournalism festival will be held in early September in Perpignan in the south of France, just two months late.
However, the event will be 'reduced' announced the organisers, due to health precautions in place to keep the coronavirus epidemic under control.
Jun 16, 2020
Covid-19: Dexamethasone Proves First Life-Saving Drug
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients diagnosed with coronavirus.
The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.
Jun 16, 2020
35% Of Eligible Voters Refuse To Register Over Covid-19 Scare — ChaLog Survey
The Chamber for Local Governance (ChaLoG) says a survey it conducted revealed that 35% of eligible voters declined to participate in the voter registration due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
ChaLoG announcing this in a press release said, “Thirty five percent (35%) of the current voter population will not risk their lives going out to register if the EC is to go ahead with its avowed aim to compile a new biometric voters register ahead of the 2020 General Elections for fear of contracting the ever increasing spread of the corona virus disease”.
Jun 16, 2020
Covid-19: Apam Confirms 19 Positive Cases
Apam, in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region, has recorded 19 COVID-19 positive cases, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed.
Mr Cletus Bayor, the Gomoa West District Director of the GHS, who confirmed this to the Ghana News Agency, said the disease was brought to the Apam Community by a COVID-19 patient who escaped from quarantine in the Eastern Region.