[ 2021-03-09 ]

Gov't to receive extra two million COVID-19 vaccines by May
Ghana will receive an additional two million
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX
Facility by the end of May, this year.








That would boost the country's COVID-19
vaccination programme and aid government's quest
to vaccinate about 20 million Ghanaians.

So far, Ghana had received more than 700,000
COVID-19 vaccines for her vaccination programme.

Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the
Director-General,Ghana Health Service, announced
this during a COVID-19 Update at the Peduase Lodge
in the Eastern Region on Monday.

He said government was making frantic efforts to
secure Cold Chain equipment that was capable of
storing vaccines under negative temperatures.

He said the Service had, so far, vaccinated
300,000 people since the COVID-19 mass vaccination
programme started on March 2,2021.

Out of the number, 129 persons reported various
adverse effects including dizziness, pains at the
spot of the injection and mild fever after taking
the vaccines.

Those who received doses of the AstraZeneca
vaccines included, health care workers, persons
with underlying health conditions, essential
service providers and those who were 60 years and
above, as well as members of the security
agencies, Executive, Legislature and Judiciary
branches of government.

Dr Kuma-Aboagye said the GHS targeted 570,000
people in the first phase of the vaccination, but
the number of people vaccinated and registered
onto the electronic database system within a week,
had exceeded 70 per cent threshold.

He applauded the media for intensifying
sensitisation on the vaccine, which encouraged
Ghanaians to voluntarily avail themselves of the
vaccination.

Dr Kuma-Aboagye stated that some of the vaccines
were delivered to the various health centres via
Zipline Drone Delivery Service.

The GHS Boss announced that a locally- developed
App would soon be launched to aid in appointment
and registration of people onto the electronic
database system to speed up the vaccination
programme.

The mass vaccination exercise will continue till
the end of October, this year.

About 20 million Ghanaians are expected to be
vaccinated although government's ambition is to
vaccinate the entire population.

Government of Ghana received its first batch of
Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured
by the Serum Institute of India, under the Global
Access (COVAX Facility) on Wednesday, February
24,2021.

Source - GNA

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