Health

Coronavirus: GHS gives details on number of tested persons [Audio]

So far 4,560 coronavirus tests have been conducted since the first case was registered in the country, Dr, Badu Sarkodie, Director of the Disease...

Coronavirus and sex: What you need to know

If I have sex can I catch coronavirus? You might have thought about it but been too embarrassed to ask. To separate the facts from...

COVID-19 lockdown: Govt intervenes for the homeless, vulnerable

Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison, has announced some stimulus packages for the homeless and the vulnerable in the country following government’s...

Akufo-Addo, family test negative for Covid-19

President Nana Akufo-Addo, his wife and family have all tested negative for Covid-19, his physician Dr Patrina Techi-Ankrah disclosed on Wednesday. According to her,...

GAF withdraws soldier involved in lockdown brutalities

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says it has withdrawn some soldiers over alleged brutalities of citizens captured in a viral video for defying the lockdown...

Covid 19 cases: Check out the regional breakdown [audio]

Six more coronavirus patients on admission at the Ga East Municipal Hospital have been treated and discharged. This brings to 38 the total number of...

Nigeria confirms 4 new cases, Coronavirus cases rise to 139

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control has confirmed four new cases of the novel coronavirus in Nigeria. According to the agency, three of the new...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 34 new cases; total now 195

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has announced Ghana has recorded 34 new cases of the coronavirus disease. The total number has, thus, risen from 161...

Ghana discharges 38 coronavirus patients [listen]

Thirty-eight patients out of the 161 persons who were receiving treatment after contracting coronavirus have been discharged. The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu disclosed this to the...

Veronica Bucket inventor seeks government support for patenting

The biological scientist who invented the buckets fitted with taps for handwashing has said she will be happy if the government helps her to...

Woman, 90, dies from coronavirus after refusing a ventilator

A 90-year-old woman died after refusing a ventilator and asking if it could instead be used to save someone younger. Suzanne Hoylaerts was admitted to...

Boy, 13, dies in London after testing positive for coronavirus

A 13-year-old boy who tested positive for coronavirus has died, King’s College Hospital Trust in London said. A spokesman for the trust said the boy’s...

Ayawaso West begins compulsory House-to-House coronavirus testing

The Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly will from today, April 1, 2020 begin a mandatory house-to-house testing for the deadly coronavirus in all communities within...

Ghana declines request to transfer body of Dutch coronavirus victim to private mortuary

Ghana has declined to grant a request by Netherlands for the transfer of the mortal remains of a Dutch, Samuel Waterberg, who died recently...

Coronavirus: 3 Ghanaians confirmed dead in US [audio]

Three Ghanaians resident in New York in the United States o f America (USA) have died of COVID-19. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Ghana records 9 new cases;...

Suspected Coronavirus cases at KATH test negative

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has announced 10 of its staff, who were exposed to patients with the infectious coronavirus diseases, have tested...

Joy4Fame CEO supports Prisons Service, orphanage home

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Joy4fame Shipping Company Limited, John Obiri Yeboah, yesterday assisted the Ghana Prisons Service with some food items and...

COVID-19: Tamale ‘quarantine escapee’ found

The Guinean national, who escaped from quarantine at a guest house in Tamale, has been found. The 21-year-old Guinean was among 10 persons in mandatory...

ER Covid-19: 28 clinical suspected cases test negative, authorities mount search for other returnees

All 28 clinical suspected cases of Covid-19 in the Eastern region have tested negative at the Noguchi Memorial Institute. Three out of four contact...

Opambour cries on live TV over Coronavirus lockdown

The General Overseer of Ebenezer Miracle Worship Centre, Prophet Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom, popularly known as Prophet One, has reacted to the partial lockdown declared...

Doctor’s heartbreaking selfie with wife as she is moved to coronavirus isolation

A doctor posted a heartbreaking selfie with his wife as he said goodbye to her before she was moved to a coronavirus isolation ward. The photo shows...

Coronavirus: GHS to embark on house-to-house testing at high risk communities

The Ghana Health Services will soon hit high-risk communities in Ashanti Region to embark on a house-to-house testing of persons who may have come...

Coronavirus: 31 positive patients recover in Ghana [Audio]

Thirty-one out of 152 coronavirus positive patients in Ghana have recovered, Minister of Health Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has said. The recovered patients, the minister said, have...

Coronavirus: Infected patient escapes

One of the eight Guineans who tested positive for the novel coronavirus has escaped from the facility in which they are being quarantined in...

LEKMA medical doctor with coronavirus came into contact with about 65 people [audio]

It has emerged that the medical doctor who tested positive for the infectious coronavirus at the LEKMA Hospital at Teshie came into contact with...

Coronavirus kills Ghanaian nurse in US

The former head nurse of Jacobi Medical Center’s psychiatric unit was concerned about the lack of coronavirus precautions and testing while working there —...

Revealed: Where the LEKMA medical doctor with coronavirus also works

  It has been revealed the LEKMA Hospital doctor, who has tested positive for the infectious coronavirus, also works at a hospital at Airport. The Municipal...

Coronavirus: Infected LEKMA doctor also works for medical facility at Airport; inside story [Audio]

Municipal Director of Health at the LEKMA Hospital in Teshie, Jacqueline Sfarijiani, has confirmed that a medical doctor at the facility has tested positive...

Coronavirus: Tamale doctors, hotel staff quarantined

At least 40 people comprising some medical personnel of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) and staff of a hotel in Tamale are in quarantine...

Coronavirus: Medical doctor at LEKMA hospital tests positive

A medical doctor at the LEKMA Hospital at Teshie, has tested positive for the infectious coronavirus, the Ledzokuku Constituency legislator, Bernard Oko-Boye...

Ladies with long and artificial nails are at high risk of contracting Coronavirus – Health Expert

An expert has warned against the dangers that long nails, varnish and extensions carry amid the coronavirus epidemic.  Dr Elisabeth Dancey, a British beauty and aesthetics...

Covid-19: Branded hand sanitisers for 2020 campaign pop up on social media [Photos]

Some branded hand sanitisers with names of some New Patriotic Party parliamentary aspirants have surfaced online. It is not clear if the branded items...

Coronavirus: 15 suspected cases in Volta Region test negative

Some 15 samples from persons suspected to have been infected with the novel coronavirus in the Volta and Oti regions have tested negative...

Woman speaks of devastation after losing both parents to coronavirus

A woman who lost both her parents after they contracted coronavirus has pleaded with the public to take seriously government advice to protect themselves. Christopher Vallely, 79,...

COVID-19: Many faces of social distancing

As the world continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to adopt social distancing measures aimed at curtailing further spread of the...

Why the world needs a COVID-19 Remembrance Day

On the day the World Health Organisation will finally announce containment or an end to the fight against the Coronavirus global pandemic, that day...

Ministers of State, other govt appointees donate 50% of salaries towards COVID-19 fight

A number of high-ranking government appointees have decided to follow President Akufo-Addo's footsteps by donating a half of their salaries towards the Covid-19 Fund...

Read: Coronavirus doctor’s heartbreaking dying wish to her children

A doctor on the frontline battling the coronavirus has posted a heartbreaking message to her young children in case she dies from the killer...

Coronavirus: Vaccine still 12 to 18 months away – WHO Director-General’s full briefing

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, wherever you are. There are now more than half a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than...

Condom shortage looms after coronavirus lockdown shuts world’s top producer

A global shortage of condoms is looming, the world’s biggest producer said, after a Coronavirus lockdown forced it to shut down production. Malaysia’s Karex Bhd...