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COVID-19 spreads outside lockdown areas in Ashanti region; 13 nurses quarantined in Bekwai

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah File Image   The deadly coronavirus has crept its way out of the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area which is currently under a partial lockdown into two uncontacted territories in the Ashanti region. On Good Friday, three new cases were confirmed in the Bekwai Municipality and the Sekyere …

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JUST IN: COVID-19 lockdown police beats man to death in Kumasi

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   A 40-year old man, Kwabena Tweneboah Kodua has died after allegedly suffering a brutal assault in the hands of a police patrol team that was enforcing the partial lockdown on Monday night at Konkori, near Kumasi in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti region. Mother …

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Coronavirus: New Zealand health minister demoted for breaking lockdown rules

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimag David Clark New Zealand’s health minister has called himself an “idiot” after breaking the country’s lockdown by driving his family to the beach. David Clark admitted the 12-mile (20km) drive was “a clear breach of the lockdown principles”. He offered his resignation to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, …

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Man shoots five people dead for ‘making too much noise’ amid coronavirus lockdown

  by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Murder A doctor’s husband shot five people dead for making too much noise outside during the coronavirus lockdown in Russia, police say. Anton Franchikov, 31, berated a group of people from his balcony before grabbing a hunting rifle and opening fire when they came inside. The group of four …

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We’ll decide on extension of lockdown next week – Akufo-Addo

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah President Nana Akufo-Addo says the government will make a determination on whether or not to extend the lockdown imposed on parts of the country next week. He said the decision will be based mainly on the results of the over 19,000 tests that have been conducted due …

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Lockdown: Soldiers beat me up after going out to buy ingredients for ‘kontomire’ stew – Man alleges (Video)

  by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Lockdown victim A young man from Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana has shared his sad ordeal of how he was allegedly beaten by the Ghanaian military for going out to buy some ingredients for his stew amid the lockdown. According to the unnamed young …

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Akufo-Addo to give account of lockdown directives on April 5

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimsh play videoPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo   President Akufo-Addo will tomorrow April 5, 2020, give an account of the progress of the partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi. This was disclosed by the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. The address is expected to be made at …

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Ghana may not extend lockdown – Health Minister

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang Manu has revealed that Ghana may not extend the two-week partial lockdown after it expires. According to him, the directive has so far been successful and the lockdown has made contact tracing in the past four days very effective, hence his …

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Coronavirus: Bosomtwi DCE imposes 12 noon lockdown on residents

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah All food vending activities in the Bosomtwe District have been banned outright from twelve o’clock noon per new directives circulated by the District Assembly. The decision which differs from the Executive Orders handed down by president Nana Akufo-Addo was taken by the District Security Council, the Emergency …

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Lockdown brutalities: Afigya Kwabre DCE beaten to pulp by policemen

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Afigya Kwabre South in the Ashanti Region Hon. Christian Adu-Poku (APC) has been attacked by some policemen believed to be with the Tafo Moro market police command. Narrating the incident on Otec fm’s afternoon political talk show dubbed “Dwaberem”, on …

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