Accra, GHANA ndash; On April 30, 2021, U. S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan joined the Ghanaian government and military officials to inaugurate the Joint Operational Vector-borne Disease Entomology Laboratory at 37 Military Hospital in Accra.
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BY: Donald Ato Dapatem
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President Akufo-Addo together with Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian (left) cutting the tape for the inauguration of the building. Picture: SAMUEL TEI ADANO
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The French Embassy in Ghana has inaugurated a new building for its Chancery on the Fourth Circular Road in Cantonments in Accra.
The new site for the embassy became necessary because the former was situated close to the Jubilee House, the seat of Ghana’s Presidency.
The new building, which was designed by Lyon-based architectural firm, Segond-Guyon, is situated on a 1,540 square metre land, adjacent the United States of America Embassy.
In February 2020, a new strain of bacteria - Neisseria meningitides serotype X was reported in the Upper West Region, with the hope that it will be contained in days.
But by April 15, 2020, the virus had spread to all five regions of the north, with 409 infections resulting in 40 deaths.
COVID-19
On Thursday 12 March 2020, the country recorded its first case of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyemang Manu, announced at a press conference that two “imported” cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Ghana, after laboratory tests from the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research.
The two cases said to be travellers from Norway and Turkey were the first cases of the COVID-19 to test positive in Ghana after about 57 suspected cases proved negative.