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The government set aside 80million Ghana cedis to pay frontline health workers' incentive package as part of Ghana's COVID-19 pandemic preparedness. [57] The Minister for Employment and Labor Relations stated an amount of GH¢320 million was spent on health workers as part of the Government's COVID-19 relief package. [58]
Use of COVAX vaccines in Ghana. According to the Ghana Health Service, the COVID-19 vaccine would be free of charge for Ghanaians. [14] Dr. Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Director of Public Health at GHS, pregnant women and children below 16 years were exempted from the first phase of the vaccination exercise. [15]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first two cases in Ghana were confirmed on 12 March 2020, when two infected people came to Ghana, one from Norway and the other from Turkey .
This necessitated the transfer of three COVID-19 patients there to the University of Ghana Medical Centre. [410] The President was petitioned to set free pastors who violated the COVID-19 protocols during the pandemic. [411] The governor of BoG claimed there was a quick response by the government to the pandemic's effects on Ghana's economy. [412]
A girls' school in the Eastern region confirmed 13 COVID-19 cases. [77] UENR conformed 5 cases of COVID-19 in Sunyani. [78] The Chairman of Vice-Chancellors Ghana claimed cases recorded in some universities in the country were managed. [79] The National Schools Inspectorate Authority called on schools to report COVID-19 cases to the GHS. [80]
It was built by the government of Japan and donated to the government and people of Ghana in honour of the Japanese researcher Hideyo Noguchi, [6] [7] who researched Yellow fever in Ghana and died from the disease in the country in 1928. [8] Test samples for the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana are performed and confirmed by the institute. [9] [10]
Health. Home & Garden. Lighter Side. Medicare. News. ... a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana. ... The country’s economy is also reeling from the shock of the Covid-19 ...
Professor Jacob Plange-Rhule, Rector of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, died from COVID-19 at University of Ghana Medical Centre in Accra. [70] [71] On 11 April, a total of 566 cases were confirmed. This came after the Ghana Health Service confirmed 158 new cases. [72] Western and Volta regions recorded their first cases each.