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General news for Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Source: Peace FM
2021-02-23
Vaccine for coronavirus
Former Deputy Health Minister Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye has launched the government plan for COVID-19 vaccination starting next week.
Ghana will start administering the COVID-19 vaccines starting Monday, March 1.
The arrival of a total of 350,000 vaccines is expected to start the vaccination process.
According to the program director of the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), Kwame Amponsa-Akyianu, the exercise will continue until October this year.
Exposing the vaccination exercise, Dr. Okoe Boye says that the first group of people to receive vaccines are health workers in hotspots around the country.
He said the vaccination will be issued first in Greater Accra and Kumasi in Greater Accra and Ashanti regions, respectively, followed by other regions.
“When you look at the implementation plan, the first people we turn to are healthcare workers at hotspots. Although the disease is prevalent throughout Ghana, there are three or four regions whose numbers are always high – that’s Greater Accra. , Kumasi (Ashanti Region) and western, “he told sit-in host Nana Yaw Kesseh on Peace FM’s” Kokrokoo. “
He added that more than 49,000 vaccinators and volunteers have been selected to assist in the vaccination exercise.
” Our goal is to train more than 12,471 vaccinators and 37,000 volunteers. These are all people who will be trained to help in vaccination, ” he said.
