The Bureau of Public Safety (BPS) is asking for the immediate withdrawal of the $150 COVID-19 testing fee at the Kotoka International Airport. A statement issued by the Bureau indicated that the imposition of the testing charges upon arrival at the Kotoka International Airport is “a direct contravention of the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations (IHR).” The Kotoka International ...
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Eerste donorbrieven op de mat in Amsterdam
Vanaf dinsdag vallen de eerste brieven voor het nieuwe Donorregister op de mat. Inwoners van Amsterdam hebben de primeur. Edwin van der Aa 01-09-20, 11:45 Iedereen vanaf achttien jaar die nog geen keuze heeft ingevuld in het Donorregister ontvangt in de komende maanden een brief met de vraag dat alsnog te doen. Wie zes weken na ontvangst van de brief ...
Read More »Hoe bewaar je eieren het best?
Joris Bijdendijk is sterrenkok. Hij geeft antwoord op basisvragen uit de keuken. Vandaag vertelt hij over de beste manier om eieren te bewaren. Joris Bijdendijk 31 aug. 2020 Overal ter wereld heb ik eieren geproefd. Rotte eieren in as op IJsland, duizendjarig ei in Chengdu, een embryo-ei in Vietnam. Het had allemaal wel iets. Ik krijg veel vragen over eieren. Vooral ...
Read More »Knot: Nederland moet lonen verhogen voor sterkere euro
Nederland moet de belasting op arbeid verlagen zodat huishoudens meer geld te besteden hebben. Als alle rijke landen in Europa dat ook doen, zullen ze meer producten importeren waar juist de armere lidstaten dan van profiteren. Zo kan de EU samen sterker uit de crisis komen. Laurens Kok 01-09-20, 21:00 Die oproep doet president Klaas Knot van De Nederlandsche Bank ...
Read More »KIA reopening: 200 passengers complete coronavirus tests on day 1
About 200 passengers on three separate flights have successfully undergone COVID-19 tests at the Upper Arrival section of Kotoka International Airport (KIA). This comes just days after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the opening of Ghana’s air borders effective September 1. Senior officials of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Aviation, and Ghana Health Service were at the airport ...
Read More »Reduce cost of mandatory coronavirus test at Airport – Parliamentarian appeals
The Deputy Ranking Member for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs has called on the government to take a second look at the cost of the mandatory test for coronavirus at the Kotoka International Airport. Dr. Alfred Oko Vanderpuije said “the $150 per test is too high. It should be reduced”. “What test would cost $150? So many places ...
Read More »Half of the antigen test at the airport may be inaccurate – Noguchi
A Senior Research Fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Dr Kofi Bonney, has downplayed the accuracy ofCOVID-19 test being conducted at the country’s international airport. The Kotoka International Airport(KIA) reopened for regular international passenger travel on Tuesday, September 1, 2020. As part of measures to reduce the importation of coronavirus, the government has rolled out a mandatory ...
Read More »Mills-Mahama administration sought to introduce Agyapa-like deal in secret – Gabby
Former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute Gabby Asare Otcthere-Darko has noted that nine years ago, the Mills-Mahama administration sought to introduce a deal in the form of the current Agyapa Royalties agreement to monetize Ghana’s gold royalties. He noted that unlike the current agreement, which went to Parliamentfor deliberations, the one that was drafted by the National Democratic Congress ...
Read More »Agyapa deal: Is Gabby Otchere-Darko the AG’s spokesperson? – Amoako Baah asks
A former lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Richard Amoako Baah, has wondered why President Nana Akufo-Addo’s cousin, Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, is the one purporting to speak for Attorney General Gloria Akuffo with regard to the controversial Agyapa deal following the leakage of the AG’s scathing legal opinion on the agreement. Mr Otchere-Darko ...
Read More »Cost of testing for travellers outrageous, make it free – NDC Communicator
A communication team member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Eric Sosu has described as outrageous the cost of COVID-19 test for travellers who are returning to Ghana. According to him, the cost is not only outrageous but a fleece on the travellers who have been hit by the economic challenges of the coronavirus. Travellers coming to Ghana by ...
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