Ghana Health Service will on Tuesday, 30th November 2021 declare December as a month of vaccination and this mandate will be applicable in January 2022.
Proposed groups expected to be vaccinated in December include three arms of government, health workers, security personnel, all staff of tertiary and secondary institutions, all commercial drivers and mates, and government workers.
This move comes in the wake of the detection of a new coronavirus variant Omicron in South Africa and the United Kingdom through genome sequencing.
Ghana has so far received 12. 3 million doses of a number of vaccines altogether, but only about 7.1 million have been distributed with the remaining 5.2 million doses still in stock.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has said Ghana is seeking to take delivery of more than seven million doses of COVID-19 vaccines before the end of 2021.
This includes AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson.
Ghana has Recorded 1,209 COVID-19 related deaths since March 2020 and Active cases as at 20th November was 669.
Source: mybrytfmonline.com/ Kofi Atakora
