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Browsing: AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine
Ghana has moved into the next phase of Covid-19 vaccination.
The exercise that targets all health care workers in other districts and regions in Ghana kicked off on Monday, March 22.
According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS), the AstraZeneca vaccine that is being administered is safe.
Approximately 90,000 health workers are being targeted in this next phase of the vaccination programme in Ghana.
The Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye said this includes both public and private sector health workers and that their names and locations have been vetted and each district will have two sites for vaccination.
According to him, all health workers would have been covered across the country within a week, or two weeks.
Additional vaccines
Speaking on Sunday afternoon during a press briefing, Dr Kuma Aboagye said Ghana was still pursuing additional vaccines as well as sustaining the public education on adherence to …
Delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to selected health facilities has kicked off in Ghana.
The exercise which began on Tuesday, March 2, is being conducted by Zipline, using drones.
Ghana is now the first country in the world to deploy drones on a national scale to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, which were shipped into the country on February 23, by the Covax facility.
Ghana received 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, from the Serum Institute of India (SII).
The arrival in Accra is the first batch delivered anywhere in the world by the COVAX Facility as part of an unprecedented effort to deliver at least 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to low- and middle-income countries by the end of 2021.
How COVID-19 vaccines will be distributed
With about 12 million people in Ghana living outside cities, the country’s government will use Zipline’s network to deliver its COVID-19 vaccines to ensure rapid, …