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The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has said GH¢320 million was expended on health workers as part of the COVID-19 pandemic relief package of the government.
The intervention included the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) on a regular basis, tax exemption and the provision of allowances for frontline health workers.
Those who were directly involved in surveillance, case management, laboratory and other related frontline services also received GH¢10.3 million life insurance package.
Mr Awuah said the reliefs were provided in spite of fiscal constraints on the government to ensure that health sector workers were motivated to discharge their duties diligently to defeat the pandemic.
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Ten months after schools were shut down in March 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19, two sisters Benita and Benedicta have missed school; but they are at home and do not have to face the daily risks in the streets.
The six-year-old twins no longer have to walk close to one-kilometre from home to school and back daily using pedestrian walkways that have dangerous streets lights.
These class one pupils of the Rev. Lartey Adotey Memorial School at Adabraka, Accra, have to be guided by their mother or a guardian to walk safely past several galvanised street light poles with sellotaped or naked cables within arms length of the little girls as they walk, a situation that is deeply worrying to their mother.
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Ohordua (Edo), Dec. 20, 2020 (NAN) An activist, Mr Peter Esele, has donated food items to no fewer than 200 families in Ohordua community in the Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the food items were handed over to the families on Sunday by the veteran unionist.
The beneficiaries cut across widows, vulnerable people, low income earners and some residents of the community.
Esele, a former President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria, while presenting the items said that he was not unaware of the effects of COVID-19 since February this year.
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