Tag Archives: CORONAVIRUS

COVID-19 cases in Africa have reached 3.26 million as of January 18, 2021, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the continental disease control and prevention agency’s Africa Covid-19 dashboard, the death toll from the pandemic stood at 78,911 on Monday, with 2.6 million …

Renowned broadcaster Nana Aba Anamoah is alleging that some health practitioners in the country have been taking bribes to alter the result of coronavirus tests. In the wake of the rise in Ghana’s cases, there have been discussions on social media on why the country appears to be losing the battle against …

A Nurse at the War Memorial Hospital in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region has died of COVID-19 at the Regional treatment centre in Bolgatanga. The Kassena-Nankana Municipal Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Mr Habib Mahama who confirmed the death of the nurse to the …

President Akufo-Addo is upbeat that Ghana would surmount the scourge of the Covid-19 pandemic as its impact on the economy is mitigated in the new year. In a short interaction with the media on Friday after he joined congregants of the Accra Ridge Church to usher in year 2021, he …

South Africa has breached the one million mark of COVID-19 cases in South Africa, after 9 502 cases were reported on Sunday, bringing the cumulative total to 1 004 413 cases. A total of 214 COVID-19 related deaths were reported, with 123 in the Eastern Cape, 17 in Gauteng, 13 …

Cases of the more contagious variant of Covid-19 identified in the UK have been confirmed in several other European countries as a vaccine is due to be rolled out across the continent. The infections, linked to people who had come from the UK, were reported in Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. …

Another new variant of the new coronavirus seems to have emerged in Nigeria, the head of Africa’s disease control body has said, cautioning more investigation was needed. The discovery could add to new alarm in the pandemic after similar variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that appear to be more contagious …

Ghana is still battling with some 991 active COVID-19 cases, the country’s Health Service has reported. A total of 100 new cases were recently confirmed. The death toll has also climbed to 331. So far, a total of 53,653 cases have been confirmed since mid-March 2020. Some 52,331 of them …

Ghana’s active coronavirus cases seem to be letting up as two consecutive figures released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) show a decline. Latest updates on the virus by the GHS show that Ghana’s active case count as of November 22 is 775, after 41 new cases. This is a …

The number of Americans in hospital with Covid-19 reached record levels on Tuesday, as more than a million new cases were confirmed in November. There are over 10 million confirmed US cases and 239,732 deaths so far – and the death toll is rising to an average of over 900 …