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Ghana will receive the first batch of Corovirus vaccines on Wednesday 24 February at Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
In a press release, the Information Ministry revealed that the designated Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, will lead the government delegation to receive the vaccines at 7:00 am.
The ceremony, according to the statement, will be televised live on Ghana Television (GTV) and also on the Ministry of Information’s Facebook page, the statement said.
This is the first batch of vaccines that Ghana is expected to receive out of a total of 2.4 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine licensed from the Serum Institute of India (AZ / SII).
The country is among the 145 countries listed to receive vaccines from various providers through the COVAX facility according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
This comes just hours after the Secretary General of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Justice Yankson, urged the public to cooperate with the government in administering the Covid-19 vaccines when they arrive in the country.
According to him, Ghanaians should not worry about the safety of Covid-19 vaccines, as they have been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).
“I believe that the general public should cooperate with the efforts of scientists, the government, the Ghana Health Service, the World Health Organization (WHO) and others who are doing their best working in good faith to try to solve this problem, “he said. set.
Furthermore, the Minister of Information appointed in a public pledge on Covid vaccination noted that government officials will publicly take doses of the Covid-19 vaccines prior to the mass vaccination exercise.
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah explained that this is to help demystify the public’s apprehension about vaccines.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS), in March, will begin mass vaccination exercise with Covid-19 vaccines for selected segments of the population.
