Ghana has, as at 6pm Wednesday, May 13, recorded 5408 cases of COVID-19, an increase of 281 cases within 24 hours.
The number of deaths has also increased from 22 yesterday, to 24.
Most of the deaths, according to Dr. Badu Sarkodie Addo, Head of Public Health Directorate, are associated with...
As the novel coronavirus continues to bite hard and ravage livelihoods and economies, Oil Marketing Company, GOIL Company Limited has demonstrated its commitment towards the welfare of the country by embarking on a number of interventions to limit the effects and spread of the pandemic.
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Hollard Life Assurance, a subsidiary of Hollard Ghana, has announced a free COVID-19 cover for all its existing and new customers on individual and group policies. This is to help ease the burden of the pandemic on Ghanaians.
At no additional cost, the complimentary COVID-19 cover will provide policy holders...
“If the wind does not come, the long grass is motionless.” – Akan proverb
In all things, some people are better at them than others. Excelling in an activity or venture invigorates us with good feelings about ourselves. It makes us aware that we are good at something, which contributes...
Several countries in Asia and Europe, where the COVID-19 outbreak appears to have peaked, are gradually reopening their economies. Without a vaccine or effective treatment, policymakers will be balancing the benefits of resuming economic activity against the potential cost of another increase in infection rates. They face difficult choices,...
The panic buying and mad rush for food and alcoholic products has shot up the general prices of goods and services, as figures from the Ghana Statistical Services show inflation for April has entered double digits, first time since rebasing in August.
The 10.6 percent inflation for April, though is...
Remittances are a lifeline for tens of millions of families around the world.
But as the coronavirus pandemic limits the ability of migrants to work and send their wages back home, that lifeline is drying up.
Smitha Girish lives in Kerala in south-west India with her young son Ishaan.
Her husband is...
Around the world, food insecurity is spiking. Experts predict that the number of hungry people will double during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout Africa, governments struggle to provide for the neediest. In Burkina Faso, which at one point had the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, more...
If you have ever wondered whether there is any limit to the fundamental human rights which have been sacredly bestowed on you by the Constitution, then the answer is yes. The question remains as to the extent of the limit on persons’ right to protection of privacy as enshrined...
Dagbon Forum (DF), a Non-profit Youth Development Association of the Dagbon ethnic group, has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Tamale Central Hospital, two other municipal and nine district hospitals in the Northern Region.
The Association has also donated to the Gbewaa Palace, the Mion-Lana and Yoo-Naa Palaces, all in...