By Clara Quainoo – GIJ Intern  The Ministry of Health (MoH) has approved the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Test as method for screening and medical testing of Covid-19 in the country. This decision was taken by Ministry to stop people who import Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits as tools for self-test, screening and diagnosis of Coronavirus from doing so. According …

The campaign manager for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu is reported to be at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease. Also on admission to the Unit is the Deputy Trade Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah. There are reports that two other Deputy Ministers who have tested positive for the virus …

Chief Executive Officer of C4C Homeopathic Hospital, Dr. Michael Kwadwo Kyeremanteng has said the country is currently in difficult times and there is the need for all to find ways of living with and enduring the Coronavirus pandemic. According to him, the continuous spread of the pandemic points to the fact that the virus will not leave anytime soon, hence …

The disinfecting of basic schools in the Savannah Region would help assuage fears in both the pupils and the teachers in the region as a result of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The Deputy Director, Supervision of Education, West-Gonja District in the Savannah Region, Katribi Dramani, made the observation during the disinfection of Yipala Junior High School (JHS) in the West-Gonja …

By Frank Amponsah The leadership of the Conference of Heads of Basic Schools (COHBS) has assured the President of the Republic Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that they will ensure successful academic work as third year Junior High School (JHS) students return to complete their academic work and to write their final exit examinations. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced government to …

The Volta Regional Director of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Mr Solomon Denyo, has assured the Ministry of Education (MoE), the Ghana Education Service (GES), teachers, parents and all stakeholders in the education space in the Volta and Oti Regions that his outfit will complete the disinfection of private and public schools in the two regions before schools re-open on Monday, June …

Zoomlion Ghana Limited last week begun the second phase of disinfecting tertiary institutions in the Ashanti Region. The exercise, which commenced on Thursday, June 11, 2020, was aimed at keeping the environs of the institutions safe, and to also help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Following cases of Covid-19 in the country, President Nana Addo Dankwa …

Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Sunyani, Owusu-Banahene Justina, has affirmed that the disinfection exercise of the Sunyani Military Barracks (3 Battalion) will spur military personnel on to continue to support the government’s fight against Covid-19. She made the remarks at the launch of the disinfection of military facilities in the Bono Region. According to her, as one of the front-runners …

By Anna Claudia Duker The Head of FISSD, Food and Drug Authority, Mr  Ebenezer Kofi Essel has stated that the protocols recommended for the prevention of infection with COVID-19 has itself put a strain on major statutory activities including food regulation across the food supply spectrum worldwide. According to him, a major pursuit expected of every National Food Regulatory Agency …

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has been commended for using World Health Organisation (WHO) approved standards, and state-of-the-art equipment, in its dis-infection and dis-infestation exercises. Deputy Minister of Defence, Major (Rtd) Derrick Oduro, made the commendation when he launched the nationwide disinfection and dis-infestation of military facilities and Garrisons at Burma Camp, Accra, on Monday. According to him, the use of such …