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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has reviewed its isolation guidelines for international arrivals testing positive for the Covid-19 virus at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). In a press statement signed by Director-General, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Service noted that effective December 24, it will introduce home isolation for international arrivals who are vaccinated but have contracted the virus and are asymptomatic. “Persons following assessment by the Port Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service and found to be eligible will be allowed to undergo isolation in their homes. All such passengers will be briefed on the self-isolation protocols.” The Ghana…

Security personnel believed to be protecting the concession of Adamus Resources, a gold mining company at Nkroful in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region, have allegedly burnt alive an illegal miner they arrested on the concession at Anwia-Bokazo. The victim, Michael Budo, who’s a physically challenged person, has sustained life-threatening burns all over his body after the security personnel allegedly poured petrol on him and set him on fire. He managed to narrate his ordeal at the Ekwe Government  Hospital where he is receiving medical help. “Yesterday [Thursday] around 7:30 to 8:00 am, I was attacked by land guards.…

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH) has detected significant changes in the heart muscle tissue of people who died from Covid-19. Damage to lung tissue has been the research focus in this area for some time and has now been thoroughly investigated. The current study underpins the involvement of the heart in Covid-19 at the microscopic level for the first time by imaging and analyzing the affected tissue in the three dimensions. The results were published in the journal eLife. The scientists imaged the tissue architecture to a high resolution using synchrotron…

The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has identified areas and spots in the Central Region that record most of the region’s road crashes and want drivers to be extremely careful when they drive along such spots. The Authority says in spite of several measures put in place to reduce the crashes, the road crashes keep occurring snuffing out many lives and injuring many in the process. Central Regional head of the National Road Safety Authority, Linda Afotey Annan, tells joy news, even though the number of lives lost on the road and the number of injuries reduced this year compared…

National Road Safety Campaign Ambassador Bice Obour Osei Kuffour has launched the Go Come Campaign in response to the rising and rampant road carnage on Ghana’s roads. The campaign is aimed at helping educate road users, especially drivers to tread cautiously. The National Road Safety Ambassador, who was recently appointed Managing Director of the Ghana Post, intimated that his long-standing passion and desire to see Ghana’s roads safe has driven him to embark on this National Campaign. This is an initiative of National Road Safety Campaign Ambassador Bice Obour Osei Kuffour This, Mr Kuffour noted, is to ensure that travellers…

Two children, a 12-year-old girl, and a two-month-old baby have been confirmed dead after a dawn fire swept through a residential apartment at Buokrom Estate in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Three others who sustained various injuries have also been hospitalized. The fire started at about 2:50 am on Friday, December 24, 2021, and the occupants were trapped in the building while the fire spread. A neighbor, Abena Konadu Nimako, who witnessed the incident, narrated it to Citi News. “I heard someone screaming and calling for help, but we thought it was a robbery attack. I called my mother and…

A Bolt driver based in Sekondi-Takoradi has been allegedly set on fire by a passenger. The unfortunate incident is said to have occurred on the night of Wednesday, December 22. According to sources, the unidentified rider who poured petrol on the driver for reasons unknown is currently at large. A good Samaritan who chanced upon the incident raised the alarm. He suspects that the rider sought to snatch the car with registration number WR 487-21. The driver is said to have sustained various degree of injuries and is currently receiving treatment at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital. Source link

The driver, whose identity is currently been concealed for security reasons, sustained burns from his face and several parts of his body after the rider poured petrol on him and set him on fire at Bakano in Sekondi, on Wednesday night, December 22, 2021 A bold driver, Edmund Kweku Appiah, who came upon the incident and suspected the rider wanted to snatch the car, told Citi News the attack happened after 10:00 pm. However, the victim is currently fighting for survival at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital. In a similar incident this year, the lifeless body of Israel Adjei Manu, a…

Truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced on Dec. 13 to 110 years in prison for a 2019 fiery crash just outside Denver that killed four people and injured several others – a sentence that the judge in the case said he wouldn’t have chosen if he had the discretion. A spokesman for the Colorado First Judicial District Attorney’s Office told ABC News on Tuesday afternoon that the DA’s office “filed a motion to start the reconsideration process” of the sentence on Friday afternoon, and Jefferson County District Attorney Alexis King has requested that the court set a new hearing “as…

The National Safety Council estimates 798 people may be killed on the roadways during the upcoming holidays; 371 during the Christmas holiday driving period, and an additional 427 during the New Year’s holiday driving period. That number would likely be significantly higher if not for seat belts, which are estimated to save more than 310 lives over the same driving periods. In 2020, 90% of front seat passengers used seat belts. If 100% of seated occupants wear their seat belts, it’s estimated an additional 180 lives could be saved over the holidays. Additionally, sober driving will be critical, as alcohol typically is…