President Akufo-Addo has taken his first vaccination of the COVAX Covid-19 vaccine.
Category: Health
Ghana takes delivery of 600k doses of free COVID-19 vaccines
Ghana on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, took delivery of the first ship of COVID-19 vaccines from Covax.
We’re not against COVID-19 vaccines – Church of Pentecost
The Church of Pentecost has said that it is not against the administration of COVID-19 vaccines duly approved by regulatory agencies of the various countries, stressing that the myths and controversies against the vaccines are not true.
We’ll give mortuary attendants better conditions of service – Health Minister-designate
The Minister of Health-designate, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has said that mortuary attendants will have no cause to worry again as the Ministry was working hard to improve on their conditions of service.
Parliament suspends sittings over growing number of COVID-19 positive cases
The surge in numbers of Members of Parliament (MPs), staff and auxiliary staff of the Parliamentary Service infected with the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), has compelled the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, to suspend sittings of the House for three weeks.
Dissolve national COVID-19 technical team; they aren’t performing – Minority NDC MPs to Akufo-Addo
The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament have called on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to immediately dissolve the national COVID-19 technical team over non-performance.
COVID-19: Ghana records 777 new cases
Ghana’s COVID-19 active cases has shot up to 5,786, after recording a total of 777 new cases, data provided by the Ghana Health Service has revealed. According to the data, 497 persons have also recovered from the disease, bringing the total number of recoveries to 62,340. The death toll has now risen to 433. Currently, […]
Speaker bans COVID-19 infected MPs
Members of the Parliament (MPs) of Ghana and staff of the Parliamentary Service who have tested positive for the novel CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) has temporarily been banned from coming to Parliament.
FDA approves first herbal medicine for clinical trial on COVID-19 treatment
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has approved a herbal medicine, Cryptolepis sanguinolenta, locally known as Nibima, for clinical trials in January 2021.
Millennium Promise Alliance donates 8,000 PPEs to Electoral Commission
Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-Governmental Organization, has donated 8,000 pieces of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Greater Accra Regional Directorate of the Electorate of the Electoral Commission to assist in preventing voters from contracting the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) when they go the polling stations to cast their vote.
5.8m people to be vaccinated against yellow fever in Ghana
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday, November 10, 2020, launched the last phase of the Yellow Fever Preventive Mass Vaccination Campaign at Nsawam in the Eastern Region.
Speak Up Africa recognizes Niger President, Mayor of Free et al for remarkable leadership in public health
Some leading figures in public health across Africa, including HEM Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Republic of Niger and Mrs. Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, have been recognized for their remarkable leadership in sustainable development.