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Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has requested Parliament to grant the Government approval to access an amount of GH¢1.250 billion from the Contingency Fund to finance the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP). The objective of the CAP is to mitigate the disruption to economic activities and the hardship imposed on the people …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says ” the frontline health worker” in the context of COVID-19 containment must be clearly defined to identify the actual beneficiaries of government’s tax breaks and incentives for health care workers. He noted that judging from the angst and contentions emanating from some groupings in …

Ghana’s total confirmed cases of COVID-19 have risen to 313, following the confirmation of 26 new positive cases, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said on Wednesday. The new figures were recorded from the enhanced contact tracing and sample testing exercise currently ongoing in Accra, Tema, Kasoa, and Kumasi, and other …

The Central Region has recorded its first case of the COVID-19 with a call on residents to remain calm as the Regional Response Team worked to contain the disease. The patient, a 57-year old Ghanaian clergyman, who returned from the United Kingdom on March 17, had his sample taken to …

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 34-year-old James Chukwuka who failed to comply with the Restriction Order and allegedly took the blood samples of pregnant women and some residents at Gbese in James Town to test for their sugar level. Chukwuka had his plea reserved as the prosecution said …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) says it will pull out all the stops to fight and contain the spread of the COVID-19 in the country. “We have resolved that we will carry on this fight no matter what it takes….we know some of us will be taken away by COVID-19, …

Forty-three contact traced of persons who tested positive to COVID-19 in the Tema Metropolis have tested negative to the virus, Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate revealed on Tuesday. Speaking at a press briefing organized by the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), Dr Sally Quartey, Tema Metropolitan Director of Ghana Health Service, said …

The Ministry of Health has announced the commencement of recruitment for 2017 trained nurses and midwives with a diploma and degree certificates from accredited public and private training institutions on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. A statement issued by Nana Kwabena Adjei-Mensah, the Chief Director of the Ministry, has said. It …

Dr Mark Kurt Nawaane, Member of Parliament (MP) for the Nabdam Constituency in the Upper East Region, has called on the government to carry out mass testing for COVID-19 in order to know the real state of the virus in the country. According to him, the government had delayed in …

The Police Administration has decided to serve personnel meals to avoid the situation where officers deployed to ensure the public complied with the lockdown directives do not leave their posts in search of food. They are not supposed to roam at this critical time, leaving their duty points to search …