Diplomacy Archive

Researchers at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Incas Diagnostics in the Ashanti Region have partnered with scientists from the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) to develop a rapid test kit for the novel coronavirusThe KCCR

The British High Commission has cut down the number of British staff working in the diplomatic mission. The interim measure was undertaken after the Ghana government lifted a three-week lockdown in the country to allow free movement and business activities. The

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MGCSP) Hon Cynthia Morrison has revealed she has been eating food meant to be given to the vulnerable in the society during the lockdown. “I and my team, all eat from the food

The Government Statistician has expressed the need for an extension of the partial lockdown (movement of people) to further check the spread of  the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Professor Samuel Kobina Annim told the Ghanaian Times in an interview yesterday that the

Ghana is expected to have full complement of the $100m COVID-19 fund from the World Bank today April 6, 2020. The money is expected to go into various programmes and activities to fight the pandemic. The World Bank over the weekend

A significant number of Ghana’s active cases of the novel coronavirus have come from foreign nationals who travelled into the country with it. Currently, most of the cases recorded in Northern Region are from Burkina Faso and Guinea, and there are

Global cases of COVID-19 have shot past 500, 000 while the US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country, with more than 85,500 positive tests. According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, the US

The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has given indications that the government may announce restrictions in some parts of Ghana as part of additional measures to stop the spread of Coronavirus in the country. He said the restriction or other