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Courts ordered to adjourn cases to May, June over COVID-19 lockdown Chief Justice, Anin Yeboah directed that all legal cases in Accra and Kumasi should be adjourned to May and June 2020 following the restriction of movement of persons resident in those areas in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. Although the President exempted members of the Judiciary from partial lockdown, Justice Anin Yeboah said lawyers, litigants and other court users do not fall under the exempt category and must, therefore, stay at home. “For this reason, registrars are directed to adjourn all cases listed during this period to dates in May and June 2020,” a statement signed by the Chief Justice indicated. However, some courts in the affected regions have been designated to deal with critical cases such as “breaches arising from the restriction orders and other criminal matters”. The Supreme Court and Court of Appeal are also available to handle urgent cases as may be determined by the Chief Justic

  The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has opted out of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting scheduled for today, Wednesday. The IPAC meeting will focus on the voter registration exercise, of which a number of political parties and other stakeholders have called for the exercise to be put on hold.Due to the President’s directive for limited people at social gatherings, the meeting is to be divided into two groups.Also, representatives of political parties are to be reduced from three to one.We take note of your new arrangement for parties to be represented by just one (1) person for the IPAC meeting and the arrangements that the same meeting will be divided into two groups, because of the directives of the President on social gathering following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the NDC said in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia adding that it does not  “see how any meaningful meeting can be held to achieve consensus on any matte

12 more persons on mandatory quarantine test positive for COVID-19 15 new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Ghana. The number is made up of 12 persons who were mandatorily quarantined by the government and three other persons in the general population. This increases the total case count of the disease to 68 in Ghana with two deaths. “The sudden spike in case incidence is as a result of the mandatory quarantine and compulsory testing for all travelers entering Ghana, as directed by the President,” the Ghana Health Service reported. “Overall, 30 of the 68 cases have been reported in the general population with the remaining 38 cases among persons currently under mandatory quarantine. As of 24 March, total of 1,030 persons are under mandatory quarantine; samples from 863 of them have been tested and 38 confirmed positive,” the GHS added. All the active cases have been isolated and receiving treatment. 1,030 mandatorily quarantined  A total of 1,030

Pep Guardiola: Manchester City manager donates 1m euros to fight corona virus . Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has donated 1m euros (£920,000) to fight the coronavirus outbreak in Spain. Guardiola, who is at his home in Barcelona, has been working with his lawyers over the past few days to work out the best way of using the money. It will go to a campaign being promoted by the Medical College of Barcelona and the Angel Soler Daniel Foundation. Spain is one of the worst affected countries in Europe. Official figures on Tuesday showed that  2,696 people had died  in the country and close to 40,000 are infected. The money will be used to help purchase medical equipment and protective material for the hospital staff involved in treating those admitted to hospital. The Catalan region is one of the areas in Spain which has the most concentrated number of cases. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have both reportedly donated 1m euros to coronavirus campaigns th

 C onfirmed cases of COVID19 The ministry of heath has confirmed two cases of coronavirus  now adding to become 11 . Ghana's coronavirus case  count hits 204 Ghana's has recorded 204 cases of coronavirus,  confirms the Ghana Health Service. (GHS) Until now, the number of cases recorded stood at 195. According to the GHS, "Since the last situational update, Ghana has confirmed nine additional COVID-19 cases, all from Greater Accra region. Four (4) of them have no history of travel nor contact with any confirmed case. Other four (4) have no travel history but are contacts of confirmed cases in Ghana; and one travelled to Ghana from Benin within the past 14 days. "As at 2nd April 2020, Ghana has recorded 204 cases COVID-19 with five (5) deaths. The number of regions reporting cases remain five (5) (Greater Accra, Ashanti, Northern, Upper West and Eastern). The Greater Accra Region has most of the cases (183) followed by the Northern Region (10),