A year into Ghana’s fight to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the country passed the COVID-19 Health Recovery Levy Act, 2021 (ACT 1068) to impose a special levy on the supply of goods and services and imports. This is to raise revenue to support COVID-19 expenditures and to provide for related…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked citizens who are still skeptical about taking the COVID-19 vaccine to ignore conspiracy theorists and go for it. “To those listening to the propaganda by the conspiracy theorists and those who are still sceptical about the efficacy of the vaccine, it has been…
The AMLA Foundation (AMLAF) has called for a national stakeholders’ dialogue on false news to help in the country’s quest to winning the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine hesitancy. The dialogue has become necessary has Ghana prepares to host the Pan-African vaccine plant and aid in lessening the…
Namibia is looking into the possibility of allowing persons who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter the country for business and leisure (tourism business) without the requirement of 72 hours Negative PCR test, an official said Thursday. The final outcome will be announced hereafter a collective decision has been…
At least 430,308 people in 80 counties and 556 health facilities have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 since April 2021 in South Sudan, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday. Brendan Dineen, the WHO's COVAX coordinator, said that so far 522,509 people have received single vaccine doses of AstraZeneca since…