Ghana to receive first batch of Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday

Ghana will receive the first batch of vaccines against Corovirus on Wednesday February 24 at Kotoka International Airport in Accra.

In a press release, the Ministry of Information revealed that the designated Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, will lead the government delegation to receive the vaccines at 7:00 a.m.

The ceremony, the statement said, will be televised live on Ghana Television (GTV) and also on the Ministry of Information’s Facebook page, the statement said.

This is the first batch of vaccine that Ghana is expected to withdraw out of a total of 2.4 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine licensed to the Serum Institute of India (AZ / SII).

The country is one of 145 countries listed to receive vaccines from a number of suppliers through the COVAX facility according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

It comes hours after the secretary general of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Justice Yankson, urged the public to cooperate with the government in administering the Covid-19 vaccines upon their arrival in the country.

According to him, Ghanaians should not be worried about the safety of Covid-19 vaccines because they have been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).

“I think the general public should cooperate with the efforts of scientists, government, Ghana Health Service, World Health Organization (WHO) and others who are all doing their best to try to solve this problem, ”he said.

The Minister of Information appointed during a public engagement on the Covid vaccination also noted that government officials would publicly take doses of Covid-19 vaccines before the mass vaccination exercise.

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah explained that it was to help demystify the public’s apprehension about vaccines.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will begin the mass vaccination exercise with Covid-19 vaccines for selected segments of the population in March.