GENERAL NEWS

Leading waste management company and a subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), has donated US$20,000 (GHC120,000.00) to the University of Ghana Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), one of the leading laboratories at the forefront of testing samples for the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) …

The pursuit of family livelihood continues to create some form of disconnection between parents and their wards. There are a lot of parents who do not actually know the emotional and psychological state of their children. A lot of parents especially men leave home very early in the morning to …

Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true. A briefing on the preliminary …

The Paramount Queen mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Region has called on security officials enforcing the partial lockdown in her paramountcy to beat up residents who defy the presidential directive. “I see the young girls and boys always on the streets, left to me alone I support stiffer punishment …

My News Ghana has sighted a video on Instagram where police officers were captured flogging a woman for flouting lockdown instructions. According to eyewitness, police on patrol who were enforcing lockdown regulations found the woman sitting in front of her house and asked her to get inside which she refused …

A journalist with Accra-based TV Africa has been reportedly shot during a joint security operation on Saturday [April 18, 2020] at Changli a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region Tamale. Armed security forces raided the community this dawn and arrested 134 residents and destroyed hundreds of properties of residents It is …

The Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, an initiative set up to support the government to combat the novel coronavirus in the country says it has begun setting up a 100-bed infectious diseases isolation and treatment facility. The project, dubbed the ‘Facility 100 Project’, will be used for the treatment of …

Head of Pathology Department of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Dr Simon Naporo has revealed that the bodies of all people who died of COVID-19 will not be handed over to their families but would be buried by the government. According to him, the disease is highly contagious and the …

A military man on operation covid-19 safety duties has shot at a 50-year-old motor rider for allegedly using unapproved route at a barrier at Dobro in the Nsawam Adoagyir Municipality of the Eastern Region. According to the police, report from the security personnel at the said barrier indicated that the …

The Ghana Police Hospital in Accra has announced for the notice of the General Public that it intends to organize a mass burial service for bodies at the Police Hospital, MyNewsGh.com can report. A statement from the hospital said the mass burial has become imperative due to the need to …