Ghana`s Active cases of the Pandemic COVID-19 have dropped drastically from over 13,000 on 1st January 2022 to 3,227 as of 18th January 2022, Ghana Health Service report.
It said 10 patients are in critical and 29 in severe condition and the death toll from March 2020 to 18th January 2022 stands at 1,370, meaning,61 new deaths have been recorded in 2022 alone.
Out of the 2,215,094 total number tests conducted, 151,068 were confirmed positive Greater Accra Region remains a hot spot with 1,1300 Active cases, followed by International travelers who were detected through the test at the Kotoka International Airport which has 819 cases and 247 in Ashanti Region.
President Nana Akufo Addo has disclosed that his government will be signing an agreement in Germany on 16 February 2022, towards the production of COVID-19 vaccines locally in Ghana.
“To this end, a committee has been established under the chairmanship of the former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, the world-renowned scientist Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, which is formulating a concrete plan of action towards vaccine development and manufacturing,” the president said at the time.
Addressing a delegation sent by Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to invite him to the 5th-anniversary celebration of the enthronement of the queen mother of the Asante Kingdom, Nana Ama Konadu Yiadom III, scheduled for the 6 and 16 of February 2022, President Akufo-Addo disclosed he would attend the event on the 6th of February but not on the 16th because he will be in Germany to sign the agreement for the production of vaccines locally in Ghana.
“The 16th date is a problem. I am due to be in Germany for the AU-EU-Brussels Summit. On the same 16th, I will be signing the agreement which forms part of our plans to begin the local production of vaccines in Ghana,” President Akufo-Addo said.
The presidential vaccine manufacturing committee in Ghana has said it is targeting the production of COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana by 2023.
In a media engagement on Friday 27 August 2021, as part of stakeholder consultations towards the production of COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana, Anarfi Asamoah Baah, the coordinator of Ghana’s Coronavirus Response Programme, who is also a member of the committee, had noted that the target was achievable.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kofi Atakora
