Editorial: COVID-19; Closing down Kindergarten and lower primary is a good option
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has proposed that schools in the country be closed in order to control the rising spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country. The call comes in the wake of increasing fatalities among Covid-19 patients.
Currently, the death rate of the pandemic has reached 464, following the confirmation of eight more fatalities, and the country has recorded 765 new infections, raising its active cases to 6,411 from a previous 6,095 since the last update on Saturday, February 6, 2021.
But many parents have opposed the idea of a total closure of schools, citing the number of months their wards have stayed at home as a basis for their argument.
Make 2021 a Year of Science Alliance for Science Ghana to Prez Akufo-Addo
By Alliance for Science Ghana LISTEN
JAN 19, 2021
We bring you warm regards and wishes of a happy New Year from Team Alliance for Science Ghana. We wish you an outstanding year in which all your hopes and aspirations will gloriously come alive.
Afehyia pa.
2020 was by all standards a difficult year. COVID-19 battered the world from coast to coast, killing about 2 million people and infecting more than 90 million others. Young and old, males and females, fit and strong, all struggled to cope with not just the impact of the virus on their health, but with the disruption it caused to our daily lives. Schools closed down, airports were shut, businesses folded up, and we couldn’t even congregate to show love to one another.
K.C.C.R gets support from staff of AngloGold Ashanti Ghana
Anglogold Ashanti Ghana through voluntary contributions from its female employees has presented a cheque of GH¢30,000 to the Kumasi Center For Collaborative Research towards Breast and Prostrate cancer research.
Making the donation on behalf of Staff and Management of the company, the Human Resource Superintendent-Staffing and Line support, Hilda Arhin said the donation forms part of the Sustainable Development Strategy to continually contribute to the health and wellbeing of the people of Obuasi and the nation.
Under the theme BOOBS and BALLS , Miss Arhin said the initiative started last year where they made a donation of GH¢27,277.40 to the Noguchi Memorial Research Institute to support their research on cancer. She mentioned that the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease dealt a hefty blow to their campaign to create awareness on Breast cancer and Prostate cancer this year but they have devised innovative ways to reach