Новости за 04.04.2020

The coronavirus scare has compelled nurses at the Accidents and Emergency Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hosptial to lay down their tools. They said they will not work until all of them are tested for coronavirus. The nurses said the move has become neccesary after a patient was tested postive for COVID-19 at the Accident and Emergency Centre but the information was kept from them by their superiors thereby putting them at risk. The nurses also want to be provided with th ...

Dr Marylyn Martina Addo is a German-born doctor of Ghanaian descent and is one of just a few women at the forefront of finding a vaccine for the deadly Coronavirus. The 49-year-old professor is the head of the German Center for Infection Research rsquo;s Infectious Disease Unit at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and has been an expert in emerging infectious diseases for years. In Hamburg, she is responsible for the isolation and treatment of the first corona cases. A ...

The West Mamprusi Municipal Emergency Health Team (WMMEHT) has begun screening all passengers, especially head porters popularly known as 39;kayayei 39; entering the municipality. Though the municipality was not part of the areas affected in the movement restriction as directed by the President, the move was largely to ensure that a number of the kayayei who had been trooping home to escape the restriction in Accra and Kumasi were not infected with the virus. Barriers were mounte ...

The 33-year-old female who tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19) at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region has been isolated while contact tracing has been initiated by the health authorities in the Region. A statement signed by the Upper East Regional Minister,Ms Tangoba Abayage on Friday April 3, 2020 and released to the media on Saturday April 04, 2020 explained that the ldquo;patient has no travel history outside Ghana or contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case . According to ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) COVID-19 Team has called on the government to embark on a nationwide testing as a means of getting a hold of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ghana. It said the restricted movement being implemented by the government may not be effective because many of the economic migrants in the affected cities moved back to their hometowns before the action took effect. ldquo;We recommend, as a matter of urgency, the review of the testing strateg ...