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-Ghana’s mass COVID-19 vaccination started on Tuesday, March 2, 2021
-More than 400,000 people have been vaccinated so far.
-Of that number, about 1,050 had side effects.
The program director of the Expanded Program on Immunization at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Kwame Amponsah-Achiano, says that some 1,050 Ghanaians developed side effects after taking the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
More than 400,000 Ghanaians were vaccinated as of March 16, 2021, said Dr. Amponsah-Achiano.
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“So we’ve had almost 1,030 and 1,050 events supporting, again, these are risks… compared to the number of people vaccinated and it’s roughly 268-300 events per 100,000 people vaccinated. In other words, for every 100,000 people who have received the vaccine, we have received 300 reports, ”he told Accra-based 3FM on Friday, March 19.
Ghana received 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on February 22, 2021, within the framework of the United Nations-led COVAX facility.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is licensed by the Serum Institute of India (AZ / SII).
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Ghana is expected to receive an additional two million of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility by the end of May this year, boasting the government’s quest to vaccinate some 20 million Ghanaians.
Meanwhile, a Ghanaian franc described the deployment of free vaccines in the country as worrying.
Kennedy Agyapong, a ruling member of parliament for Assin Central’s New Patriotic Party (NPP), said he was willing to fund Ghana’s purchase of the vaccine to reduce the country’s over-reliance on aid.
“I’m not bragging, but I’m willing to give Akufo-Addo a million dollars to get the shots,” he said on his Net 2 television Wednesday.
“I don’t like the idea of always going to developed countries to ask for support as if we couldn’t do anything for ourselves,” he added.
In other news about YEN.com.gh, Action Chapel International (ACI) General Overseer Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams said it would take faith and common sense for one to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Despite testing negative 22 times for the deadly contagion, the man of God went ahead to take the hit.
It will be recalled that Duncan-Williams was seen wearing two masks at the funeral of the late former president of Ghana, Ft Lt Jerry John Rawlings, in Black Star Square on January 27, 2021.
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