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Three persons suspected to have contracted the coronavirus have been quarantined in the Ashanti region. Chief Executive 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 but the regional health directorate in Kumasi, today, Monday, 23 March 2020. The ...

The Rastafari Council have applauded Ghana Parliament for legalising cannabis for health and industrial purposes in the country. On Friday 20th March 2020, Parliament passed the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019, which transforms the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) into a Commission with enhanced powers to control and eliminate trafficking of prohibited narcotic drugs. Per the new law, NACOB also becomes a Commission with additional ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for a temporary break in political activities in the media and instead use that effort to collectively fight the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. The King expressed concern over the devastating effects of the pandemic, saying the virus requires serious attention. The Otumfuo, therefore, entreated all the major ...

Deputy Minister of Local Government, Mr. Osei Bonsu Amoah has said the disinfectants to be administered today at the various markets in the capital has no efficacy to kill and prevent the deadly coronavirus. Speaking on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.5 Fm Monday, Mr O.B Amoah disclosed that the move is a routine by local authorities to sanitize and clean up market ...

Parliament Friday evening passed the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019, to treat drug dependence as a public health issue rather than focusing on law enforcement, incarceration, punishment and repression. “The fundamental goal of drug policies should be to improve the health, safety, security and socio-economic well-being of people by adopting appropriate measures to combat illicit crop cultivation and use of ...

Madam Mercy Wilson Brown, the Volta/Oti Regional Coordinator, Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service, has appealed for media support to minimise or end all forms of sexual violence in society. She said the Unit kept recording increasing cases of sexual abuse against women and children, especially with far-reaching consequences like unplanned pregnancies, school drop-out, ...

Health experts in Canada have revealed that persons who have recovered from the dreaded coronavirus are more than those that have lost their lives. According to a report on globalnews.ca, out of the over 121,000 recorded cases of the pandemic, about 66,000 have been healed whilst about 4,400 have died. This report comes at a time there is seeming tension in ...

The EU says it will pay €2,000 (£1,770; $2,225) each to migrants in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands willing to go back to their home countries. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the scheme in Athens on Thursday. It was agreed with the Greek government. She said it was temporary – open for one month only – and ...

A 13-year-old girl with albinism is leading a campaign to make sure girls in Tanzania complete their schooling. Joyce Simon says her parents wanted her to deliberately fail her exams so that she wouldn’t continue her education. They feared for her safety in school because she has albinism. But people in her area Chamwino district of Dodoma say other parents ...

A base hosting US and UK troops in Iraq has been hit in a rocket attack, US military officials say. The attack was on the Taji military camp north of Baghdad. The US sources said an American soldier, an American contractor and a British soldier were killed but this has not been officially confirmed. Tension has been high since the ...