News of Monday, 13 April 2020

Ghana among top 20 nations in the world in coronavirus testing per capita rankings

Data is a powerful weapon in our fight against coronavirus - Bawumia

Coronavirus: Why launch an app that can’t be used - Bright Simons wonders

Easter Monday: Police, military go full force on other beaches after Chorkor incident

Lockdown: Ghana Marine Police extends surveillance to Chorkor beach

Stay at home or face arrest – Efia Tenge warns holiday revellers

LIVESTREAMED: Ministry of Communication launches COVID-19 Tracker App

Kwahu Easter: Business owners cry over ‘dry season’ following coronavirus outbreak

The Ghanaian doctor supporting the fight against coronavirus

African evictions: We would not want to reciprocate, be warned - NPP Japan branch to China

Africa Education Watch raises concern over use of schools for isolation centres

Coronavirus: 58 ‘exposed’ Begoro Hospital staff, patients quarantined

Inject some sense into the Chorkor folks before situation gets out of hand - Ghanaians tell Akufo-Addo

Coronavirus: Ghana’s communication strategy faulty from start – Manasseh

YAWC Network Ghana Chapter donates to squatters community at GIMPA Haatso stretch

Government's approach to feeding the vulnerable recipe for disaster - ChaLoG

Kwahu drivers stuck with empty cars following cancelled Easter, Accra-Kumasi lockdowns

Lockdown: Angry residents attack police inspector, another

Coronavirus: Hundreds ignore social distancing as they gather to receive food from NADMO in Asokwa

Coronavirus: Temporal closure hits Ketu South Municipal Assembly markets

Coronavirus lockdown: Punish soldiers for assaulting journalists – GJA

Coronavirus: WHO says 70 vaccines in the works, with three leading candidates

Koforidua Prisons quarantines convict over Coronavirus

Meet Ghanaian scientist Professor Awandare helping us understand the coronavirus

Coronavirus: Engage chiefs in your strategies – SKB Asante to gov’t

Coronavirus: What Kwahu Easter 2020 looked like

2 test positive for coronavirus in Ningo-Prampram

Coronavirus: We’ll decide on possible lockdown of Eastern Region by close of today – Regional Minister

Beefed up efforts in Eastern Region as authorities ready to fight coronavirus

Coronavirus: Hot meals costing GHC2m per day – NADMO

We dug, chased the virus and found 274 more cases – Oppong Nkrumah

Coronavirus: Let Social Workers take charge of distributions – NGOs in Health

Coronavirus: I haven’t seen videos of crowd scrambling for food – NADMO PRO

Coronavirus: We’re shutting down markets close to Eastern Region – Volta Regional Minister

Lockdown: Punish soldiers for assaulting journalists – GJA

Let Social Workers take charge of distributions – NGOs

Coronavirus: CSOs gear up to feed the poor and vulnerable in lockdown areas

Community infections of coronavirus surpass imported cases in Ghana

Pentecost Elder dies of gunshot injury

A month since Ghana’s first coronavirus case: 12 major happenings

Police arrest 29 in Mosque

Coronavirus: Two major markets in Volta Region closed as cases increase in Eastern Region

Mahama donates PPEs to Upper East Regional Hospital

Impose 21-day nationwide lockdown – BPS to Akufo-Addo

Coronavirus: Mahama calls for National Infectious Disease Response Plan

Lockdown: We’re going to be tough on Covidiots – Police warns

Coronavirus: 66.6 per cent of victims have no travel history – Ghana Health Service

The world must become a better place after coronavirus pandemic - Palmer-Buckle

Coronavirus: Catholic Archdiocese of Accra supports 750 households with food items

Social distancing is the best means to prevent the contraction of coronavirus - Archbishop

KNUST College of Engineering designs and constructs Ghana’s first homemade ventilator

Coronavirus has taught humanity the value of brotherhood - Catholic Bishops

GHACHIFA urges Chinese government to respect the rights Ghanaians

Coronavirus: Suspected case at Tema Port

Mamobi, Newtown record 31 coronavirus cases

Coronavirus: 10 regions confirm cases

NaCCA boss applauds UG scientists for sequencing genome of coronavirus

Coronavirus: Sammy Gyamfi makes a case for private health workers

Halt registration for online studies – UCC SRC directs students

Ghana’s 566 coronavirus case count highest in West Africa

Lockdown: Fake journalist arrested for extortion at Buduburam

Chiana-Paga NDC parliamentary candidate donates PPEs to fight Coronavirus

NDC offers party vehicles for coronavirus fight at North Tongu constituency

Coronavirus: Mahama promises research centre in the North when elected as president

Damongo to get water in Mahama’s first 3 months in office - Adam Mutawakilu

Coronavirus: Project peak of infections – Mahama tells Ghanaian scientists, govt

NPP stalwarts used Akufo-Addo’s name to extort $22m from Seidu Agongo over Heritage Bank – A Plus

I cannot play politics with coronavirus which killed my uncle - Anyidoho

Future NDC govt will retool 37 Military Hospital as Infectious Disease Centre – Mahama

1V1D bridge caves in for second time, cuts residents from farmlands

Health Directorate in Eastern region warns heads not to speak to media on Coronavirus

Western Regional Minister discloses identity of coronavirus patient in the region

Ethical family values key for societal growth, protection against coronavirus – Osie Adza Tekpor

Ellembelle District has not recorded any cases of coronavirus, stay calm - DCE clears air

Ketu South Municipal Assembly markets shut down due to confirmed cases of coronavirus

Mahama donates to hospital of his birth

Private health facility in Walewale closed down after coronavirus death, contact tracing begins

Social distancing: 45 persons arrested in Volta Region

Coronavirus: Bolga New Market to face possible closure

Coronavirus: Bawku Parliamentary Candidate blows whistle on possible imported cases from France

Coronavirus: Upper East records 4 confirmed cases

Covid-19 Private Sector Fund supports National Treatment Centre with over 2,000 PPEs

EP Church donates items to two psychiatric hospitals

Coronavirus is real - Apostle Prof Asuming-Brempong cautions Christians

Use Easter period to pray for an end to pandemic – Bishop Agyenta

Anglican Bishop assures that coronavirus will be defeated