President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed that the Government since 2021 procured over a 26million doses of COVID-19 Vaccines with some more on the way to vaccinated all citizens in the Country for protection against the Pandemic.
According to him, a total of 10,451,662 vaccines doses have been administered so far and 7,070,719 persons have received at least one jab with 3,380,949 persons fully vaccinated.
President Akufo-Addo disclosed this when he opened the 73rd edition of the annual New Year School and Conference at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana at Legon on Tuesday (Jan 25, 2022).
He, therefore, entreated all those who have not yet been vaccinated to go to the nearest hospital for vaccination and told the skeptics to take note that 8% of those who are currently infected are those who have not been vaccinated.
The President said the government would continue to work proactively to protect the citizens from the ravages of the pandemic.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that Ghana is on its way to establishing a domestic manufacturing plant for COVID-19 vaccines.
He said with the Presidents of Senegal, Mr. Macky Sall, and Rwanda, Mr. Paul Kagame, the three would inspect production facilities needed for that in Germany on February 16, 2022.
“We are going to build a pan African project with these two sister African states where initially the fill and finish plant will be located in Ghana.
“BioNTech of Germany, a health and technology company which now works with Pfizer, has agreed to be our partner and will contribute awesomely to the construction of a modern production facility for other vaccines such as those for malaria and tuberculosis in Ghana,” President Akufo-Addo said.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/ Kofi Atakora
