Tag Archives: OUTBREAK

  To prevent a rampage fire outbreaks, Archimey Kwaako Gyimah, a certified electrical wiring inspector, chief examiner of electrical wiring professionals, and Energy Commission representative in charge of electrical wiring professionals’ training for the Bono East and Ahafo Region has called on Ghanaians, including property owners and electrical wiring professionals …

Ghana has issued a high alert in response to the recent outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1), commonly known as bird flu, in Lomé, Togo. The Volta Regional Health Directorate confirmed that more than 1,000 birds have already been culled as a result of the outbreak. In a …

Deputy Ranking Member on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs Committee of Parliament, Eric Opoku, wants Agriculture Minister, Bryan Acheampong, brought before Parliament to outline measures put in place by the government to manage the recent outbreak of anthrax in the country. Following the outbreak of anthrax in the Upper East …

Following the fire outbreak of March 15, 2023, that destroyed several properties at the Kejetia Central Market in Kumasi, the capital city of the Ashanti Region, a young man believed to be in his early twenties has been arrested by the Ghana Police Service for attempting to steal during the …

Ghana recorded four deaths and 116 confirmed cases of the Monkeypox disease in 2022, in 14 out of the 16 regions. Two deaths were recorded in Upper East and one each in the Greater Accra and Central regions. The Savannah and Ahafo regions did not record any cases, Dr Farida …

A police officer with the anti-robbery unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command has been burnt to death in a fire that gutted the Apromase police barracks in the Ejisu Municipality where he lived with his family. The officer died together with his wife, and child in the fire disaster …

A fire outbreak that destroyed two wooden structures at Mataheko, close to the Mars Business School in Accra, has resulted in the burning to death of a one-year-old baby girl. According to 3news.com reports, the girl was asleep when the fire started. Here burnt remains have been handed over to …

A man believed to be in his 70s has been burnt to death in an inferno that gutted a house at Akyem Asuboa community in Eastern region last night. The fire outbreak occurred at about midnight. The assembly member for Asuboa Salam, Andrews Sir Doe told Starr News the man …

Fire has gutted a residence at Oregon Avenue behind the Adabraka Central Mosque in Accra. The fire which started in the morning of Thursday, December 7, 2022, destroyed several properties and cash worth GH¢ 10, 000. According to a Citi News report, residents say the fire is believed to have …

A 24-year-old man infected with Ebola has died in central Uganda in a fresh outbreak confirmed by health officials. The health minister has told journalists that the victim had exhibited symptoms before succumbing to the disease. He was a resident of Ngabano village in Mubende district, about 147km (91 miles) …