A total of 2,833,673 persons representing 14.2% out of 20 million targeted populations have been fully vaccinated by the Ghana Health Service since the vaccination began in March 2021.
Also, as of 3rd January 2022, a total of 8,872,253 doses have been administered and persons receiving at least one dose is 6,598,879, representing 33%.
Out of the doses administered, the number of persons who received Pfizer-BioNTech is 1,305,944, for AstraZeneca, the number is 6,046,958, sputnik-V is 17,982, Moderna – 941,070 and COVID-19 vaccine Jansen is 560,299.
The Health Ministry has already started implementing the ‘no vaccination, no entry’ policy on its premises, according to a notice it has put up on its building in Accra.
Persons who did not have the Covid-19 vaccination cards were denied entry to the facility of the Ministry of Health on the first official workday of the year, 2022 (Tuesday, January 4).
President Akufo-Addo has revealed that to date, less than ten per cent (10%) of Africans have been vaccinated for the COVID-19 jabs, in comparison to the European Union, for example, which, as of August, had vaccinated seventy per cent (70%) of its population.
He said With countries on the continent still not being able to have sufficient access to vaccines in the requisite numbers, Africa, like the World Health Organization, are worried that the phenomenon of hoarding vaccines will worsen even further, as countries begin to administer booster shots in response to the threat posed by the omicron variant of the virus.
President Akufo-Addo stated that COVID-19 has posed the greatest test to humanity in the initial decades of the 21st century, in light of the ravages of the pandemic, which have affected all countries, rich or small.
According to President Akufo-Addo, the predictions of Africa going to be hit dramatically because of her relatively weak public health systems, with streets being littered with dead bodies when the virus reached the continent, have not come to pass.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said this when he delivered an address to the European Union Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom/Kofi Atakora
