Tag Archives: COVID 19

It is a combination of Delta and Omicron variants Latest variant Omicron causing huge surge in COVID cases globally New strain responsible for the COVID tsunami in the United States and Europe Two years have passed since the first outbreak of Covid-19 and in the last 12 months, the disease …

Jamaican dancehall artiste, Beenie Man actually tested positive for COVID-19 when he arrived in Ghana weeks back, a top official of the Ghana Health Service has confirmed. According to Accra-based Citi News, the Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Asiedu Bekoe confirmed that the musician had …

Beenie Man arrested in Ghana Beenie Man tests positive for COVID-19 Beenie man performs at Bhim Concert Jamaican dancehall giant, Beenie Man, has reacted to reports that he had contracted COVID-19 at a point. News emerged yesterday, December 27, 2021, that he had been arrested by National Security operatives days ago for flouting COVID-19 safety protocols. According …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has welcomed the €82.5 million support offered to Ghana by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to strengthen healthcare, provision of specialist medical equipment and medicines across Ghana under the national COVID-19 Health Response Plan. The concessional financing package, which comprises a €75 million facility from the …

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested positive for Covid-19 and is being treated for mild symptoms. Mr Ramaphosa started feeling unwell on Sunday after leaving the state memorial service of South Africa’s last apartheid President FW De Klerk in Cape Town, according to a statement from the presidency. People who …

Ghana has recorded 27 new cases of COVID-19, the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has said. The country’s active cases are now 692, this, according to the Service has brought the country’s total confirmed cases to 131,246 as of December 1, 2021. The Service has also indicated that there were no …

Member of Parliament for Sunyani East, Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh has said the delay in renovating the Sunyani Coronation Park is because the Chinese partners in charge of the project have all been killed by COVID-19. According to him, the contractor who was supposed to handle the renovation has lost his Chinese …

South Africa’s president has condemned travel bans enacted against his country and its neighbours over the new coronavirus variant Omicron. Cyril Ramaphosa said he was “deeply disappointed” by the action, which he described as unjustified, and called for the bans to be urgently lifted. The UK, EU and US are …

The Israeli government on Friday, November 26, announced an entry ban on all sub-Saharan African countries as a result of the new variant of the Coronavirus. The new variant was discovered in South Africa this week but had led to restricted travel bans on passengers arriving from predominantly southern African …

The market in Wuhan where scientists believe the first case of Covid originated in a female worker. The first known Covid-19 case was a vendor at the live-animal market in Wuhan, according to a scientist who has scrutinised public accounts of the earliest cases in China. The chronology is at odds …