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The Ghana Health Service reported that eight more persons have succumbed to the deadly COVID-19 in Ghana, five more people have been reported dead from the virus, taking the country’s death toll to 261. The total case count of the highly

The United States will pay nearly $2 billion for 100 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech. Shares of the U.S. drugmaker jumped 5% about an hour before the opening bell. The

The Government of Ghana has so far spent US$35million on testing 346,990 COVID-19 suspected cases. The amount is not part of the expenditure on the expansion of testing capacity. Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, Deputy Minister of Health who represented the Minister of Health, made

Ghana’s Minister of Health, Mr. Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has served notice that government would not be pressured to shut down Senior High Schools over COVID-19 fears when data available does not support such a move.   He said the current number

The Government of Ghana is considering the possibility of converting some on-going health infrastructures in the Ashanti Region to COVID-19 treatment centres as confirmed cases in the region surges. Mr. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, the Minister of Health who disclosed this, said the

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response by governments worldwide. The announcement on Thursday follows strong criticism by US President Donald Trump’s administration,

There is growing fear of a possible spike in confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ghana as the country’s Electoral Commission (EC) embarks on the compilation of a new voter register.The country which has one of the highest number of COVID-19 cases

The first day of the registration exercise being conducted by the Electoral Commission (EC) ahead of the 2020 elections has been generally peaceful in the Kumasi Metropolis. Hundreds of voters were seen in queues waiting for their turn to register at