Veep congratulates KNUST for developing Rapid Diagnostic Test for COVID-19
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has congratulated the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Incas Diagunostics for their breakthrough in developing a Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) for COVID-19. In a tweet, Dr Bawumia said:”Uniquely, this KNUST RDT is able to detect asymptomatic cases and takes up to 15-20 minutes to produce results. […]
Lands Minister files 10 million cedi defamation lawsuit against ASEPA
Mr Kwaku Asomah- Cheremeh, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has sued the Executive Director of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, at an Accra High Court for defamation. The Minister is seeking GHC 10 million damages from the defendants. Mr Abraham Otabil, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, […]
Mobile Money Interoperability up by over 350 percent in first quarter
Mobile money transfers across different networks, also known as Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI), have shot up by 358 percent in the first three months of this year, compared to the same period last year. The volume went up to over 5.12 million transactions from 1.11million in the first quarter of last year, according to figures […]
COVID-19: Vegetable farms at Ketu South left to rot
Many vegetable Farmers in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region have started counting their losses to Coronavirus. The farmers who have invested thousands of Ghana cedis into Carrot, Lettuce, cabbage among other vegetables before, the deadly virus have seen their produce going waste. They left the vegetables on the farm to have gone […]
Socialist Forum calls on gov’t for total lockdown
The Socialist Forum of Ghana, SFG is calling on the government to immediately, impose a total lockdown of the country, to curtail further spread of the coronavirus. A statement by the Convenor of the Accra Chapter of the Forum said projections painted globally and by the Presidential Advisor on Covid-19, Dr. Nsiah Asare, are gloomy. […]
KNUST develops rapid diagnostic test kits to detect COVID-19
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST has once again risen to the occasion in the national fight against the Coronavirus as it has come out with Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits for detection of the virus. Our Correspondent in Kumasi, Nicholas Osei-Wusu reports that the Kits, which are now under consideration by the […]
Serbian coach Stevanovic wants to coach Black Stars again
Former Ghana coach Goran ‘Plavi’ Stevanovic is eyeing a second stint with the Black Stars. The Serbian first led the West Africans from 2011 to 2012, guiding the side to the semi-final of the Africa Cup of Nations in his final year in Gabon-Equatorial Guinea. Ghana reached the semi-final of the continental gathering, ultimately finishing […]
Coronavirus: ‘One billion’ could become infected worldwide – report
One billion people could become infected with the coronavirus worldwide unless vulnerable countries are given urgent help, an aid group has warned. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said financial and humanitarian aid were needed to help slow the global spread of the virus. It said “fragile countries” such as Afghanistan and Syria needed “urgent funding” […]
Tamale: Testing of COVID-19 samples begins tomorrow
The Public Health and Referencing Laboratory in Tamale is to begin testing of COVID-19 samples tomorrow. The development forms part of efforts to expand health infrastructure to aid the fight against the coronavirus. Currently, there is no facility in northern Ghana capable of testing for the pandemic which has infected over one thousand five hundred […]
Coronavirus: Top NYC doctor takes her own life
A top New York City doctor who was on the front line of the US fight against coronavirus has taken her own life. The Police said Dr. Lorna Breen, who was medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan, died of self-inflicted injuries. The father of the 49-year-old doctor, Dr. […]
