GLICO, the one-stop shop for insurance and financial services in Ghana, has donated various essential items to the Ghana Prisons Service to assist in measures taken to prevent spread of COVID-19.
The essential items included large quantities of Veronica-buckets, gallons of hand-sanitisers, boxes of vitamin C tablets and thermometer guns.
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COVID-19 has disrupted the whole world and has made people think differently. Globally, various activities have been disturbed and human activities have been brought to a standstill.
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Ironically, just as the “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders has suspended his presidential campaign in the United States, many of his policy proposals are becoming necessary around the world. Social-distancing measures to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted production and household income streams alike. But the effectiveness of social distancing...
There is no historical precedent for the current worldwide shutdown of most ‘non-essential’ economic activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nor do policymakers have any experience of trying to engineer a smooth recovery after a shock of this magnitude. Clearly, however, governments now need to take responsibility. With...
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Thanks to the internet and social media platforms, work is still on going for many institutions and organisations in the midst of the worldwide lockdown following the COVID 19 pandemic. The lockdown has been necessitated by the nature of its spread from person to person at a very close...
A policy brief by the Africa Centre for Entrepreneurship and Youth Empowerment (ACEYE)
Ghana’s startup entrepreneurship ecosystem is dotted with a few dozen organisations looking to use technology as a lever to augment traditional financial services, contribute to building a better national financial system, and expand financial inclusion among other...
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye has announced that some 17 persons have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Ghana.
According to the Dr Kuma, their recovery results were achieved after the they had tested double negative after undergoing all treatments.
"Some 17 people have fully recovered...
< Now is the time to show solidarity, act responsibly and adhere to our shared goal of enhancing food-security, food safety and nutrition, and improving the general welfare of populations in Africa >
These are unprecedented times. This pandemic of such magnitude and global scale has affected each member of this generation, with countries around the world hoisting...
The government has responded comparatively quickly to the global pandemic: on March 17 it barredentry for all travellers – excluding Ghanaian nationals – who had visited a country with more than 200 confirmed Covid-19 infections.
A mandatory 14-day quarantine for all travellers was instituted at the same time, with 1030...