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Although youth unemployment is high, this does not necessarily make the causes of unemployment youth-specific; many of the causes of unemployment are due to poor infrastructure or insufficient educational qualifications that mainly affect older and younger Africans alike. [23]
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 ]
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 .
Youth unemployment in Ghana is a major issue in the country. 2011 World Bank country statistics for youth unemployment in Ghana found that 65 percent of Ghanaian youth are unemployed. The Ghana Trades Union Congress stated in 2011 that yearly youth unemployment in Ghana increases by 250,000.
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]
Model-based simulations for Ghana indicate that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t was stable below 1.0 in August. [1]On 1 August, face shields were reported to have gained acceptance as protection against COVID-19, rather than the use of face masks, as they were claimed to be more comfortable when worn for long hours.
The program is claimed to serve as a 'blueprint' for Ghana's economy recovery post COVID-19. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] According to Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu , the Ghana CARES program 'is the boldest and biggest economic recovery program in the country's history, will enable the country to turn the challenges created by COVID-19 into opportunities for ...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused far-reaching economic consequences [1] including the COVID-19 recession, the second largest global recession in recent history, [2] decreased business in the services sector during the COVID-19 lockdowns, [3] the 2020 stock market crash (which included the largest single-week stock market decline since the financial ...