Consistency and leadership are critical in ensuring quick economic recovery following the coronavirus pandemic, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Roberto Azevêdo has said. Mr Azevêdo noted that some of the measures outlined by countries to deal with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy are beginning to yield results, He […]
More than 500,000 people worldwide have now lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US. Since the virus emerged in China late last year, there have been more than 10 million cases, Johns Hopkins reports. Half the world’s cases have been in the US and […]
The first of a series of Royal Air Force (RAF) flights taking medical supplies to Africa to help fight the coronavirus pandemic departed the United Kingdom on Saturday, June 27. The RAF C-17 took off from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire on a journey funded by the Department For International Development. The transport aircraft was carried a […]
The Australian High Commission has donated items worth GH¢50,000 to support the frontline health workers at the Ga East Municipal hospital and to support the national COVID-19 response efforts. The items donated included essential medical supplies, personal protective equipment and assorted food items for use by staff and patients at the hospital. The donation was […]
Senegalese President Macky Sall has quarantined himself as a precaution after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a presidential statement late Wednesday. Although Sall tested negative for the virus, he will be undergoing a quarantine process of 15 days based on medical recommendations. Yeya Diallo, a lawmaker […]
Congolese Health Minister Eteni Longondo on Thursday officially proclaimed the end of the Ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the second most serious since the discovery of the virus in 1976. Declared on 1 August 2018, this tenth epidemic of haemorrhagic fever on Congolese soil has killed 2,277 people, said the Minister of […]
Shandong Gold Mining Co, one of China’s biggest gold producers, said on Thursday it would buy Ghana-focused miner Cardinal Resources Ltd for around A$321 million ($221 million) in cash. The deal continues a recent M&A flurry by Chinese gold firms after spot prices for the precious metal hit their highest in more than 7-1/2 years […]
South Africa’s last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial climate, his foundation said on Sunday. De Klerk, who was the head of South Africa’s white minority government until 1994, was scheduled […]
A team of Nigerian scientists has announced the discovery of a preventive vaccine against the novel coronavirus, local media reported Saturday. “It is our passion to be a solution provider to such a global pandemic, and we are ready to throw our weights behind the team and make the vaccine a reality,” news website Leadership […]
China has pledged to supply any vaccine against Coronavirus to African first free of charge. China is leading the race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine and its scientists are largely pinning their hopes on a technology that has been used for decades. Five out of 10 potential vaccines undergoing clinical trials have been developed by […]
