ShareBy Aluta News July 5, 2021 No fewer than 136 students in a high school have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. During the latest national COVID-19 update, 136 out of 550 samples taken among students in Achimota School came out positive,Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 3, 2021 Ghana confirmed a community infection of the Delta variant of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Friday, the Ministry of Information said. “The Ghana Health Service informed the COVID-19 Task Force on Friday that the Delta Variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus had been recorded within aContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 2, 2021 The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) on Friday agreed to pay $850 million in compensation to numerous people allegedly subjected to sexual harassment by adults in scouting. Media outlets reported that in February 2020, the century old organisation declared bankruptcy due to growing numbersContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 2, 2021 All U.S. and coalition troops have left Bagram airfield, the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan, a U.S. defence official said on Friday. The base is located to the north of the capital Kabul, and has been a centre of U.S. military operations forContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 2, 2021 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says refugee health challenges remain high amid COVID-19 with malaria the single most common cause of illness among in 2020. The UN Refugee Agency, in its Annual Public Health Global Review, released on Thursday also stated that PsychologicalContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 1, 2021 In the fight against the Coronavirus, the European Union(EU) must do more to address global injustices in vaccine distribution, the African Union (AU) has said on Thursday. “The fact of the matter is that the EU has vaccine factories, it has vaccine production centresContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 1, 2021 Numbers of people continue to make the perilous journey across the English Channel in small boats, with nearly 6,000 reaching Britain in the first six months of 2021. Men, women and children continued to risk the high dangers involved in crossing the 33-kilometre DoverContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 1, 2021 South Africa’s top court on Thursday re-affirmed an earlier ruling that President Cyril Ramaphosa did not deliberately mislead lawmakers about donations to his 2017 campaign to lead the ruling party. The Public Protector, an anti-graft watchdog, had been unhappy with last year’s ruling byContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 1, 2021 The number of registered prostitutes of all sexes fell by more than one-third in 2020 due to COVID, when brothels and similar services were closed in Germany. At the end of 2020, around 24,900 prostitutes were officially registered, down by 38 per cent, theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 29, 2021 The disregard for children’s rights amid war and upheaval “is shocking and heartbreaking,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday during a high-level open debate in the Security Council, held virtually. Guterres urged warring parties to prioritise the prevention of violations against boys andContinue Reading