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  The Ghana Health Service, GHS, has embarked on an extensive vaccination exercise in the Savannah Region after 16 were reported to have died of Yellow fever. The Ghana Health Service on 29th October announced the outbreak of suspected Yellow Fever in the Savannah Region. Yellow Fever is a viral infection spread by a particular species of mosquito. The outbreak has been recorded in the West Gonja Municipality and the North Gonja District of the region. As of Friday, November 12, the death toll had increased to 16 with others in critical condition. To bring the outbreak under control, the Ghana Health Service has started vaccinating people in the two assemblies, with the hope of extending it across the region. Mr. Thomas Suuri, the Disease Control Officer of the Ghana Health Service in the Savannah Region, says about 90% of residents in affected communities in the North Gonja District have been vaccinated “Now the deaths are 16, we have just rolled out the vaccination against Yellow Fev

  The family and sympathizers of former President Jerry Rawlings gathered at the Holy Spirit Cathedral at Adabraka in Accra to mark a year since his passing. Children of the late president, Zanetor Rawlings, and Kimathi Rawlings, took turns to eulogise their father, who was Ghana’s longest-serving Head of state who died on November 12, 2020, after a short illness. “The journey of combating corruption has been a complex journey for Ghana, but while you lived, you never stopped championing that cause,” she said. She further acknowledged the central role Mr. Rawlings played in Ghana’s history “Your loss was a loss to the whole country, and the pain one felt was by most Ghanaians,” Zanetor Rawlings added. Kimathi Rawlings expressed the gratitude of the Rawlings family to the government and the party Mr. Rawlings founded, the National Democratic Congress. “We are very grateful for the huge presence and love showed to your founder and the family. We count on your continued support.” Former P

The Ghana Immigration Service is urging the public to be wary against scammers who claim to offer protocol recruitments. In a statement on Wednesday, the Immigration Service said persons who have already started the recruitment process should ignore text messages directing them to report to the Immigration Service Academy for training, adding that some fraudsters on social media are directing people to pay sums of money for placement in the Immigration Service. It said it is yet to publish the final list of persons who have successfully passed the aptitude test stage and scheduled for the next stage of the enlistment process. “The Ghana Immigration Service congratulates all applicants who qualified and partook in the Aptitude Test stage of the ongoing Enlistment. All such applicants are hereby cautioned that the Service is yet to publish the final list of successful candidates for the next stage… Applicants are therefore to ignore any message directing them to report to the Immigration