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Covid-19 : Chinese national who tested positive in Kumasi resisted testing

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah A 27-year-old Chinese national travelled outside Ghana and returned currently. He is part of the 24 confirmed cases in Ghana which has already been announced by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) with one death.   He became indisposed and neighbours analyzing the symptoms suspected and reported him …

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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson announces three-week UK lockdown

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Boris Johnson Boris Johnson has announced a complete lockdown of the UK, banning people from leaving their homes or meeting in groups of more than two people as the Government scrambles to enforce social distancing measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In a public address to …

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Ghana’s Coronavirus cases rise to 27, two deaths

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Three more confirmed cases of the global pandemic, coronavirus have been recorded, Ghana Health Service has said. The number of active cases, however, is 25. A statement on the Ghana Health Service website indicated that “As of 23rd March 2020, [14:00 GMT] a total of 521 suspected …

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Nigeria’s coronavirus cases rise to 35, with 1 death

By;brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Nigeria was the first sub-Saharan country to report an official case of coronavirus, when an Italian working in the country came back from Milan on February 24 carrying the virus. © Pius Utomi Ekpei, AFP Nigeria on Monday recorded five new cases of the novel coronavirus spreading …

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COVID-19: 3 persons quarantined in the Ashanti region

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Three persons suspected to have contracted the coronavirus have been quarantined in the Ashanti region. Chief Exercutive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Oheneba Owusu Danso, said samples have been taken from them for testing. Dr Danso disclosed this at a press conference organised …

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15 million Ghanaians could contract coronavirus – Research Scientist

by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah File Photo A senior Research Scientist and Lecturer at the Department of Medical Diagnostics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Dr. Michael Owusu says 50 to 60 percent of Ghanaians are likely to be exposed to the deadly coronavirus if safety etiquettes are …

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Covid-19: NDC ‘experts’ are welcome – Dep. Health Min.

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Dr. Zenator Rawlings is one of the names announced by the NDC in the covid-19 fight Deputy Health Minister minister Alexander Abban says the experts who were named by the opposition NDC to support government’s efforts at fighting coronavirus are welcome to the field. According to …

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The coming week will be crucial in Ghana’s war against coronavirus

  Brightwebtv/nana asare barimah For many months, Ghanaians monitored international news networks reporting the battering of Wuhan, in the Hubei Province of China by the novel coronavirus disease – now christened covid-19. People in their hundreds and thousands got infected each passing day. Some could not survive the virus’ assault …

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Coronavirus: German chancellor Angela Merkel quarantined!

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to make a press statement on the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Chancellery, in Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel is going into home quarantine immediately, after a doctor who gave her a vaccination on Friday has tested positive …

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