The National Immunization Advisory Committee under the Ghana Health Service has approved Moderna and Pfizer vaccines for administration to pregnant women.
Since vaccination began in Ghana, Pregnant women were exempted from health complications in pregnancy
Addressing the media in Accra, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye mentioned that it is now effective and safe for the vaccines to be administered to pregnant women, given local and global evidence.
“We’ve done quite a lot of work. As Ghana Health Service and all the other agencies who’re working with us, we’re all concerned about pregnant women, and that’s why we didn’t add them in the first place, in the first year of implementation. But now that we have enough evidence both international and local, we are now able to add pregnant women to it, because it’s effective and safe”, he stated.
Vaccines available in Ghana for mass vaccination now are AstraZeneca, Sputnik-V, Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Covid-19 vaccine Jansen.
Active cases dropped from 9,020 on 10th January 2022 to 7,432 on 12th January 2022.
After conducting 2,190,178 covid-19 tests, 154,190 representing 7.0% in positivity rate were confirmed positive, after a total of 145,408 people recovered and discharged from Isolation centers.
As of 17th January 2022, the total vaccine doses administered were 9,342,953 but only 3,138,206 people have been fully vaccinated.
Persons receiving at least one dose stand at 6,877,682.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kofi Atakora
