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An entire Spanish family including eleven children have contracted the Coronavirus. The Cebrian Gervas family members from Valladolid in north-west Spain have all been forced to go under strict isolation in their home after every single one of them was diagnosed with the virus. Mother, Irene Gervas was the first …

The Municipal Chief Executive of Keta Municipality, Godwin Edudzi Effah has refuted allegation of ordering the closure of a keta based radio station, Jubilee radio. In a circulated video on social media, some residents were seen gathered at the the radio station, demanding for the station to be reopened since …

The Upper East Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service is calling on traditional authorities and community leaders along the borders to help clamp down on illegal migrants entering the country. The directorate observed that, community members of some border areas in the region aid the transportation of illegal immigrants …

The Telecommunications Chamber is urging Ghanaians to be guided by the way they use mobile internet data as they stay home in compliance to lockdown directives due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Among other specific appeals, the Chamber said citizens must avoid unnecessary video calls and also limit the amount of …

Officials of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have arrested 44 foreign nationals, who attempted using unapproved routes from Tatale in the Northern Region to Togo. The foreigners are made up of 37 Nigeriens, four Togolese, two, Beninois and one Nigerian. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on …

The Keta Municipal Assembly has quarantined a cook of a Korean Fishing Vessel and five local fishermen over a COVID-19 scare. The six were quarantined after the local fishermen rescued the cook at sea when he was allegedly thrown out of the Panafin a.ka. Sankofa Vessel following a misunderstanding with …

As scientists work around the clock to develop a vaccine for the world’s most debilitating disease, Covid-19, Ethiopia says it is developing a cure. In a joint press statement, the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MoIT) said: “a domestic treatment drug” is being developed …

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that a total of 50,000 Coronavirus tests is expected to be conducted in the next four to six weeks. According to him, having devices that capture respiratory residue samples for lab and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) kits available would help achieve the aforementioned …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that there are more than 50 trials for Coronavirus vaccine (COVID-19). When she appeared on a Channels Television programme on Tuesday, Fiona Braka, the country officer for WHO in Nigeria, said there is also a multi-country trial for a drug for the virus. …

Handwashing with soap and warm water for 20 seconds — along with staying home and standing six feet apart from others — is the best weapon we have against the novel coronavirus that has infected almost 800,000 people around the world. However, there’s one big yet little discussed difference when …