Custom officials at South Africa’s main international airport have seized hundreds of thousands of tablets of a drug some people claim could be a remedy against Coronavirus, police said Saturday. The South African Police Service (SAPS) said in a statement that “tablets suspected to be ivermectin” worth six million rand (nearly …
Read More »Government bans funerals, weddings, concerts, parties until further notice
President Akufo-Addo has reintroduced restrictions funerals, weddings, concerts, theatrical performances and parties until further notice. In his 23rd address to the nation on Sunday, January 31, 2021, the president indicated that, private burials, with no more than twenty-five (25) people, can take place, with the enforcement of the social distancing, …
Read More »Gov’t to reduce coronavirus test fee at KIA to US$50 – Health Minister-nominee
Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, President Akufo-Addo’s nominee for Minister for Health, has hinted that President Nana Akufo-Addo has instructed that the fee for COVID-19 tests at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) be reduced. The price of the test at KIA is currently at US$150, but per the government’s new directive, the fee …
Read More »Coronavirus: 3 kids killed at KATH
The head of Child Health Directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital In Kumasi Prof. Sampson Antwi has confirmed exclusively to Otec FM’s Nyansapo Morning show that three children have so far been killed by the dreaded COVID-19 virus since the outbreak in the country last year. According to the Medical Officer, …
Read More »Aside from erectile dysfunction, coronavirus may cause male infertility – Justice Yankson
A day after the Ghana Medical Association (GMA)’s Vice President, Dr Frank Serebour, revealed that erectile dysfunction in males forms part of many health complications faced by persons who have fully recovered from COVID-19, The General Secretary of the Association has added that the virus does not just end there, …
Read More »SA COVID-19 death toll exceeds 40 000
South Africa recorded 8 147 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, along with 300 related deaths. The country has now reached 1 412 986 confirmed infections, while the death toll now stands at 40 874. Of the latest fatalities, 105 are in the Western Cape, 70 in KwaZulu-Natal, 45 in Gauteng, 43 in …
Read More »Biden to sign 10 executive orders to tackle Covid
President Joe Biden is set to sign 10 executive orders to boost the fight against Covid which has ravaged the US. Vaccination will be accelerated and testing increased. Emergency legislation will be used to increase production of essentials like masks. In a break with former President Donald Trump, the policy …
Read More »Bodies of coronavirus victims to be buried by health experts – Government
Mourners and families of persons in the country who died of Coronavirus will be protected against contracting the virus during interments, a former Presidential Advisor on Health has revealed. Giving further details on Kumasi-based local radio station monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Dr. Anthony NsiaH Asare indicated that,” a team of experts from the …
Read More »MD of Despite’s Best Point Savings & Loans dies from coronavirus
The Managing Director of fast-rising financial institution Best Point Savings and Loans, Philip Odei Asare has reportedly passed on from Covid-19 complications, MyNewsGh.com has learnt. While further details of his death have been kept under wraps, his family and friends have been thrown into a state mourning. With the death …
Read More »840 nurses get coronavirus; kills 4
At least 840 nurses have been infected with Coronavirus in Ghana, with four nurses reportedly to have died from the Coronavirus. The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association made this known in a statement jointly signed by its president, Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo, and General Secretary, David Tenkorang-Twum. According to the statement, “at the peak …
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