… summary of the facts as at April 19
Death rate in Ghana as a percentage of known infections has dropped 1.45 percent from to 0.86 percent. In South Africa it has increased from 1.2 percent to 1.7 percent and globally from 6.2 percent to 6.9 percent.
As expected, due to increased...
Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) has affirmed the Ghana's long-term local and foreign currency issuer and foreign currency senior unsecured bond ratings at B3 and changed the outlook to negative from positive.
Moody's has concurrently affirmed the local and foreign currency senior unsecured MTN ratings at (P)B3 and the rating of...
Zipline, the world's only national scale on-demand drone delivery service, announced that it has begun delivering COVID-19 test samples. Zipline drones now fly test samples collected from patients in more than 1,000 health facilities located in difficult to reach rural areas of Ghana to Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical...
CalBank has donated an amount of GH¢200,000 to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund at the office of the Presidency in the Jubilee House, Accra. This is an additional gesture to earlier contribution of GH¢10million presented by the Ghana Association of Bankers in the collective efforts to deal with the...
There is need to review the Stabilisation and Heritage Funds, to among other things allow these funds to be invested in high-yielding portfolios, Alex Mould - a former Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has advocated.
“We need to review our Stabilisation and Heritage Funds....
The Conference of Heads of Private Second-Circle Schools (CHOPSS), an association of private senior high schools in Ghana, has called on government to include them in the distribution of the COVID-19 soft loan or stimulus package.
President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo, about a fortnight ago announced...
The Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih has expressed worry about inadequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to public health facilities in the region to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
“The PPE that are being supplied will never be adequate because they are used and disposed off. They need to...
Cenpower Generation Company Limited, an Independent Power Producer, today donated an amount of GH¢200,000.00 to the National COVID-19 Trust Fund established by the President of Ghana as part of efforts to raise resources for combating the effects of the virus in the country.
A Director of Cenpower, Dr Jimmy Heymann,...
The Insurance industry in Ghana have made a total donation of GH¢1,105,000 to the COVID 19 Trust Fund.
This was in response to the clarion call made by the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, after he had established the COVID 19 Trust Fund with the view of soliciting support...