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Covid-19: My friends demand sex for food – Blind orphan cries

  by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah File Photo Ama Serwaa [Not her real name] is a twenty-four-year-old blind girl who lost her eyesight some four years ago and is one of the vulnerable in society who is finding difficulties surviving amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Ama is an orphan and lives with her …

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Kenyan Governor offers free alcohol in Covid-19 fight

  by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The Governor of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has sparked controversy after announcing that he will distribute alcohol as part of food packs for poor families who are missing work because of coronavirus pandemic. Governor Mike Sonko made the announcement at a media briefing on Tuesday and has …

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IMF gives Ghana US$1bn to fight COVID-19; ready to add more if need be

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday, April 13, 2020, approved the disbursement of SDR 738 million (about US$1 billion) to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) by the government of Ghana. It will help address the …

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(video) COVID-19: hundreds ignore social distancing as they gather to receive food from NADMO in Asokwa

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah  ShareFacebookTwitter Hundreds of underprivileged people have gathered today in Asokwa Kumasi to receive food being distributed by the National Disaster Management Organisation( NADMO) as part of government measures to cushion the vulnerable in this lockdown period. The people jostled to get their fair share of the food …

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COVID-19 Operation: Police Inspector, another butchered by angry residents

By:brightwebtv.com/nana Asare barimah File Image   Two Police officers are currently nursing various degrees of injuries after they were violently attacked by residents of Likpe Nkwanta near Hohoe in the Oti Region while on a COVID-19 operation. One is said to have suffered a machete wound while the other has …

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COVID-19: Akufo-Addo extends ban on social gatherings by two weeks

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah President Nana Akufo-Addo   President Nana Akufo-Addo has signed the Executive Instrument (EI) extending the duration of restrictions imposed under EI 64 and EI 65, as part of measures to fight the spread of coronavirus, which has killed eight out of the four hundred and eight confirmed …

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COVID-19: Upper East region records three new cases after contact tracing

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah covid-19   MyNewsGh.com source at the Upper East Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service has confirmed that the region has recorded three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 after undergoing an enhanced contact tracing. These cases according to our source were confirmed after samples of 44 persons …

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COVID-19: 49 persons arrested at a wedding in Obuasi

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah weddding   Information available to MyNewsGh.com suggests that the Ghana Police Service has arrested forty-Nine(49) people who were at a wedding ceremony Akaporiso a suburb of Obuasi. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during his first update on the novel covid-19 ordered that public gatherings are cancelled except private burials …

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NIA SUPPORTS GOVERNMENT’S COVID-19 EFFORTS

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     The National Identification Authority (NIA) has released a number of its operational vehicles to support the tracking, tracing and testing exercise being undertaken by Government health officials as part of the Nation’s COVID-19 containment effort. Some of the vehicles have also been deployed in the …

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COVID-19: Hundreds of meat workers test positive

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Meat There’s been a spike in coronavirus cases at meat plants in the U.S., with hundreds of reported infections in just the last week. That’s adding to questions over the fragility of the food-supply chain and raising concerns over worker safety. As many as 50 people at …

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