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The Ministry of Health, through the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has announced a rise in seasonal influenza cases across parts of the country, urging the public to adhere strictly to preventive health measures. According to the GHS, the confirmed cases involve Influenza A strains H3N2 and H1N1, both of which are common seasonal flu viruses. The surge has been notably recorded in the Greater Accra, Central, Bono, and Eastern Regions, coinciding with Ghana’s annual flu season, which typically peaks during the cooler months. The Service noted that seasonal influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, presents with symptoms such as sudden onset of fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, body aches, headache, and fatigue. Transmission primarily occurs through respiratory droplets from infect...

Assistant Station Officer (ASO), Mr Ofori Collins, Hohoe Municipal Fire Safety Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), has urged the public to avoid recycling of rusty gas cylinders by repainting. He said repainting only beautifies the outer surface of the cylinders and did not make the cylinder new. ASO Ofori during a sensitisation forum at the St. Augustine Catholic Church, Hohoe, urged the faithful not to overfill their gas cylinders with the intention that it would last. He said the attendants knew the standards each cylinder could take hence they should avoid purchasing gas beyond the limits of their cylinders. ASO Ofori also urged the faithful not to put stones on the regulators of their gas cylinders but changed them once they noticed it developed a fault to p...

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INCREASING SEASONAL INFLUENZA CASES REPORTED IN GHANA – MINISTRY OF HEALTH CAUTIONS PUBLIC

Officer cautions public against repainting rusty gas cylinders