The Emergency Committee on COVID-19, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), held its fourth meeting on 31 July. In its statement following the meeting, published today, it expressed “appreciation for WHO and partners’ COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, and highlighted the anticipated lengthy duration of […]

Source:www.who.int/news-room Latin America is now the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no peak in sight.  “You can recover from a drop in the GDP, but you can’t recover from death.” With that grim but straightforward logic, Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández instituted a tough lockdown early in the pandemic to […]

Source: www.ghanaweb.com President of Family Health University College, Dr Enyonam Yao Kwawukume, has written an article espousing the potential benefits for the adoption of hydroxychloroquine to manage COVID-19 in Ghana. In the largely technical write up, published below, Dr Kwawukume stated that if hydroxychloroquine is administered early, it gets to the […]

Source: www.ghanaweb.com The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has completed its institution of 500kv transformer that will connect the newly commissioned, Ghana Infectious Disease Centre (GIDC) to the national electricity grid. According to the Managing Director the ECG, Mr Kwame Agyeman-Budu, the provision and connection of the 500kv transformer to the […]