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31 COVID-19 patients recover in Ghana – Health Minister says

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu Thirty-one out of the 152 persons who were receiving treatment after contracting COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus have recovered, the Health Minister, Kweku Agyeman-Manu has disclosed. He said, however, that they will be kept in isolation and monitored for about …

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US$100m fund to fight COVID-19 ready, GHS1bn for SMEs – Ofori-Atta

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says the US$100 million fund to fight the COVID-19 pandemic has been received and is available for disbursement in accordance with the public financial management procedures and rules. “Contrary to views of some sceptics that the money is not available, I …

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NDC bars communicators from in-studio radio, TV discussions over COVID-19 lockdown

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended in-studio discussions for its communication officers following the lockdown announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo. To this effect, all such discussions in the Ashanti Region, Greater Accra and other parts of the Central Region have been discouraged by the party …

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Covid-19: Indisciplined traders incur military wrath in Kumasi

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Residents in the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs have Friday, March 27, to remember as a day on which indiscipline attitudes were met with radical responses from personnel of the Ghana Army during the turn of the metropolis for disinfection of markets there in the wake of …

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(pictures) Guinean citizens tested positive to COVID 19 came for prostitution

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The 10 Guineans who have tested positive for the coronavirus in Ghana this morning reportedly came to Ghana for prostitution. The foreigners who have been in the country for 11 days were part of a group of people who were put on mandatory self-isolation after they …

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Prepare school classrooms to receive returnee head porters – NDC COVID-19 team urges

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The COVID-19 technical team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is calling on government to institute measures to ensure that head porters, popularly known as kayayei and ‘paa o paa’ who are fleeing Accra and Kumasi to their hometowns do not spread the coronavirus. In a …

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Akufo-Addo inaugurates COVID-19 Trust Fund Board

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah       President Akufo-Addo and the nominees of the Covid Board of Trustees (BOT) The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, inaugurated the Board of Trustees of the COVID-19 National Trust Fund, at a brief ceremony at Jubilee House, …

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COVID-19: Netherlands recalls 600,000 ‘defective’ nose masks bought from China

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The masks are a crucial protective gear for health workers and patients The Dutch government has ordered a recall of around 600,000 masks out of a shipment of 1.3 million from China after they failed to meet quality standards. The defective masks had already been distributed to several …

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Spain returns faulty test kits to China as COVID-19 death toll passes 4,000-mark

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     As Spain’s death toll hit 4,089, the Chinese embassy in Madrid said on Thursday (26 March) that the Spanish government had bought a batch of faulty COVID-19 testing kits from an unauthorised Chinese company, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to almost …

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10 Covid-19 Guinean patients to be repatriated

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The 10 Guineans who have tested positive for the coronavirus in Ghana will be repatriated to their country of origin for treatment, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister has said. The foreigners who have been in the county for 11 days were part of a group of …

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