A total of 405,000 persons have been vaccinated against the Covid-19 from March 2 to 18, data from the Extended Programme on Immunization (EPI) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has shown.
These are from 43 selected districts in the Greater Accra, Ashanti, and Central regions.
Those vaccinated include front-line health workers, adults aged 60 years and above, people with underlying health conditions such as diabetes, kidney diseases, hypertension, cancer, frontline security personnel, frontline government officials, the media, and all front-line workers in the formal sector.
Presently 250,368 persons in Accra, 187,510 persons in Kumasi, and 11,293 in the Central Region have received their first jab of Covishield, the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, under the first phase of the exercise.
In all, 20 million Ghanaians are expected to be vaccinated against the virus.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com
