Coronavirus infections across the United States have passed 2.5 million, with record numbers of cases reported in the states of Florida and Texas. The surge in cases in southern states comes after businesses were allowed to re-open in recent weeks. On Saturday, Florida reported more than 9,500 new …

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for protesters who target monuments to be imprisoned. The measure says anyone who damages a public statue must be prosecuted to the “fullest extent of the law”. Mr Trump’s order also calls for withholding federal funds from local jurisdictions and …

The United States recorded an all-time daily high of 40,000 coronavirus infections on Thursday, figures from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) show. A recent surge in infections and hospitalisations has prompted the states of Texas, Florida and Arizona to pause reopening plans. Texas’s governor ordered bars to close and announced other …

Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has rejected a warning from the World Health Organization that included Sweden among countries in Europe at risk of a Covid-19 resurgence. The WHO on Thursday said several countries and territories were seeing a rise in infections. Eleven were in the UN agency’s Europe region. …

  Eight more Ghanaians infected with the deadly coronavirus disease have died as the death toll hits 103. According to the latest figures released by the Ghana Health Service 361 new cases have been recorded shooting the country’s tally to 15,834. Meanwhile, 11,755 people have recovered from the highly infectious …

  Wearing of face mask is now mandatory and refusal to comply is punishable by law per the new Executive Instrument issued by the president. But, it seems most people are yet to get the full idea of covering the nose and mouth in public space as a means to …

      A motor vehicle accident on the Obogu-Banso road near Juaso in the Asante Akyem South District of the Ashanti Region has claimed the life of a female WASSCE candidate. Esther Nyamekye, 23, a student of Ofoase Senior High Technical School at Juaso, was killed in the accident …

    The Governing Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has elected Professor Rita Dickson as the new Vice-Chancellor. She becomes the first-ever female to lead the science and technology university after beating three others to it. She takes over from Prof Kwasi Obiri Danso, …

    A woman has died from Coronavirus in Atibie Government Hospital in Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region. The deceased, from Nkawkaw, went to the Atibie Hospital to seek healthcare since most health facilities in Nkawkaw are full following admission of over 100 Coronavirus patients. While on admission, …

      New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have asked people travelling from states where virus cases are rising to go into self-isolation for 14 days. New Jersey’s Phil Murphy said people in the three states had been “through hell and back” and did not want “another round” of …

    The Okere District Education Directorate has been shut down indefinitely after a staff tested Positive for Coronavirus. The office was shut down upon advise by the Ghana Health Service on Wednesday. All staff at the facility including the District Education Director have been asked to the self-quarantine pending …

The number of coronavirus cases recorded in the country has once again shot up from 14,568 on June 23, 2020, to 15,013 after barely 24 hours. Per the new updates by the Ghana Health Service, the number of recoveries and discharges have also seen a boost as 605 infected persons …

  The National Health Insurance Scheme was introduced in Ghana by one of the former presidents of the Republic of Ghana, H. E. John Agyekum Kuffour, who governed Ghana on the ticket of New Patriotic Party (NPP) between the year 2001 to 2008. It was so pathetic that, before the …

    Pope Francis praised healthcare workers and “obedient and creative” priests who served during the novel coronavirus pandemic. As for priests who acted in defiance of safety measures and guidelines, Francis compared their behavior to that of children. The Pope made his remarks Sunday at the Vatican, where he …

    The Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching hospital, Dr. Daniel Asare has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Citi News sources say the CEO has been out of office for the past 10 days as a result. In his stead, the Medical Director of the Korle …

      The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, is in isolation at the University of Ghana Medical Center (UGMC) in Accra after being suspected of contracting coronavirus. This follows a voluntary test he undertook of COVID-19 at the same centre on Monday evening after he returned from his constituency. The …

As a way to reduce the spread of coronavirus, China, according to Mashable, is using self-driving vans called Hercules to deliver foods and disinfect streets. In a Tweet shared by Mashable on Saturday, June 20, it said that the vans have been doing the delivery and sanitisation works for the past …

  Four students at the Odorgonor Senior High School in Accra have been allegedly isolated because they registered high temperatures on thermometer guns. According to Accra-based Atinka News, this was the observation when its team visited schools in Accra on the first of day reopening on Monday, June 22, 2020. …

    Over 100 final year students of the Sekondi College in the Western region were on Monday evening left stranded for close to three hours at the school’s main gate. The students, most of whom had come from outside the Region, were seen with their personal effects lined up …

    The White House has extended the freeze on issuance of “green cards” for new immigrants and suspended range of work visas for foreigners, including all H-1B and H-4 (for H-1B spouses) till the end of 2020 in order to protect jobs of American citizens lost due to the …

    A Seventeen year old male student of the Odogono SHS, Master Richmond Gyangbe is reported missing since Sunday June 21 2020 from home. In an exclusive interview with the Father, Mr. Stephen Mensah, a Self-Employed man at Kasoa, he said their Hometown is Edura in Ashanti Region but …

  A proverb to me, “A mind is like an umbrella, only useful when open”.   On the 21-06-2020, the President of Ghana addressed the nation and he disclosed that the free SHS 3 students are “Akufo Addo graduates”. He added that he will pay the exam fees for the …

  With uncertainty amidst the coronavirus pandemic and many people held up in their homes, people are ordering books online, especially the Good Book, according to some sources.   For many Christians in Ghana, this is no accident, as people often go to the Bible as a source of hope …

    Brazil has become the second country, after the US, to register more than 50,000 deaths from Covid-19. It comes amid growing political tension and just days after the country confirmed more than one million coronavirus infections. Graphs of Brazil’s deaths and infections show a continuing climb. The World …

    A man killed his ex-girlfriend in order to prove his love to his new partner, prosecutors in Russia believe. Suspect Aleksey Petrov, 20, is alleged to have lured former lover Anastasia Pospelova in the forest before strangling her to death. Reports say Petrov and his new girlfriend Yekaterina …

    President Nana Akufo-Addo has explained why Ghana’s COVID-19 recoveries more than doubled overnight on Saturday, 20 June 2020 by over 5,000. In his 12th address to the nation on Sunday, 21 June 2020, Mr Akufo-Addo said: “Our approach to dealing with the virus, as I have always said, …

    President Akufo-Addo has directed that one dormitory in every secondary school should be used AS COVID-19 isolation centre as schools reopen in the wake of the pandemic. “One dormitory block in each senior high school is to be used as an isolation centre, in the event of a …

The Ghana Health Service says although some recovered or discharged novel coronavirus patients may continue to have remnants of the deadly virus in their system, such persons are not a threat to others. Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Badu Sarkodie who said this explained that …

    A Colorado couple turned were arrested after a coroner examination concluded that their son died of forced water intoxication.   Zachary Sabin, 11, died on March 11 after his father Ryan and stepmother Tara forced him to drink four 24-ounce bottles of water within a four-hour span without …

  Mr. Nii Ankonu Annorbah-Sarpei, Director of Programmes, Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) has urged the government to ensure that adolescents enjoyed some health benefits under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS. He said the benefits should provide adolescents in the country the opportunity to have access to a …