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Vaccination against Covid-19 begins today in 43 districts in three regions of the country.
The regions are: Greater Accra-25 districts, Ashanti-16 districts and the two central districts.
This will mark the start of a national exercise that is expected to vaccinate 20 million Ghanaians against the virus.
Front-line health workers, adults aged 60 and over, people with highlighted health conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease, hypertention, cancer, front-line security personnel, Front-line government officials and all front-line workers in the formal sector are included in the first group. people for mass vaccination.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, along with their spouses, showed leadership by being the first to take shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday, March 1, 2021, ahead of the mass vaccination.
The vaccination is expected to take place from March to October 2021.
A total of 12,500 vaccinators, 2,000 supervisors and 37,413 volunteers will facilitate the immunization exercise in all metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies across the country.
Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses that are common in animals.
In rare cases, they’re what scientists call zoonotics, which means they can be transmitted from animals to humans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It has an incubation period of between 4 and 6 days and is fatal, especially for people with weakened immune systems – the elderly and the very young.
It could also lead to pneumonia and bronchitis.
Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, Ghana has recorded more than 84,023 cases, 77,972 recoveries and 607 deaths.
On Wednesday February 24, Ghana became the first country in the world to receive the COVAX Covid-19 facility when it received approximately 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines produced by the Serum Institute of India.
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