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General News

[ 2021-03-09 ]

COVID-19 Vaccination: GHS vaccinates 300,000 people within a week
he Ghana Health Service (GHS) has, so far,
vaccinated 300,000 people since the COVID-19 mass
vaccination programme started on 2 March 2021.

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 and the Media.

Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the
GHS, announced this at Peduase Lodge in the
Eastern Region, during a media update on Monday,
after a three-day Cabinet Retreat.

He 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 programme on the vaccine, which
encouraged Ghanaians to voluntarily avail
themselves of the vaccination.

So far, he said, Ghana had received 750,000 doses
of the AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX
Facility and expected to receive extra two million
vaccines by the end of May, this year.

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

Also, a decision had been made by government to
undertake a special vaccination programme for all
health workers across the country although the
initial arrangement was to vaccinate only people
in 43 districts, which fall within the epicentres
of the Coronavirus disease.

Government is also making frantic efforts to
secure Cold Chain equipment that is capable to
storing vaccines under negative temperatures.

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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