The Ghana Health Service has said a total of 496,748 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered as of 29th March 2021.
In Ghana, people lined up outside the regional hospital in the capital, Accra, for the first phase of vaccinations which is prioritizing frontline health workers and others at high risk.
Coronavirus infections in Ghana have surpassed 89,000 and more than 700 people have died, according to health ministry data.
Ghana became the first country to take delivery of some 600,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility in February.
The country’s Food and Drugs Authority has so far declared the AstraZeneca and Sputnik vaccines as safe-for-use in the fight against the virus.
The government of Ghana rolled out a program to commence the mass vaccination of people living in some 43 epicenter-districts in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Central regions against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com
