A total of 599,128 Ghanaians have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca from 8th March to 5th April 2021.
Ghana began its coronavirus vaccination drive in February with 600,000 AstraZeneca doses it received from the global COVAX vaccine-sharing facility aimed at providing shots to developing nations to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among eligible persons for the vaccination program includes healthcare workers, frontline security personnel, persons with underlying medical conditions, persons 60 years and above, and frontline members of the executive, Media, Chiefs, Clergy, legislature, and judiciary.
Ghana has recorded a total of 752 COVID-19 related deaths as 11 patients are in critical and 21 in severe condition, according to Ghana Health Service Report from March 2020 to 3rd April 2021.
The report indicated that Active cases stand at 1,447 and confirmed cases from 2020 to 2021 3rd April is 91,009 with 88,810 recoveries.
Ghana became the first country to receive vaccines through the UN-backed COVAX scheme, which aims to get COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable people, in a global effort to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of efforts by the government to secure the lives of Ghanaians against the Coronavirus pandemic, it has secured three million four hundred thousand doses of the Sputnik V Covid-19 Vaccine.
The supply of these doses of vaccine is part of an arrangement between the government of Ghana and the Private Office of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, a member of the Royal Family of the United Arab Emirates.
The agreement was signed on March 9, 2021, to help the people of Ghana bring to a halt the devastations of the ongoing pandemic.
The Sputnik V Covid-19 Vaccine has been approved in over 50 countries and is the world’s first registered Human Adenovirus Vector-based vaccine.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com
