OVER 250K GHANAIANS GETS VACCINATED

A little more than 200,000 Ghanaians have gotten their first naps in the progressing Covid-19 immunization work out, government has declared.

The activity started precisely seven days prior with the AstraZeneca immunization. The Greater Accra locale has recorded the most noteworthy number of people inoculated.

Chief General of the Ghana Health Service Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye talking at a public interview at Peduase Monday unveiled "as of seventh March, an aggregate of more than 202,252 people have been immunized. This is the one that has been ticked electronically."

He uncovered "More prominent Accra alone has immunized around 128,088 yet they have around 58,000 individuals they have inoculated which are yet to be entered. Since they are yet to be entered in light of the fact that we are revealing from the electronic stage that is the reason it is so."

"Thus, Ashanti would have about the third of the numbers to be entered. The biggest number inoculated so far are the over 60's which as of now remains at around 51,000 or more, trailed by wellbeing laborers 47,000. And afterward we have people with fundamental medical issue being the third with around 31,000," he added.

Ghana on Friday, March 5, gotten 50,000 bits of COVID-19 immunizations from the Government of India

At a short function to get the antibodies, Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said: "The gift, coming only couple of days after the memorable conveyance of Six Hundred Thousand dosages of the Oxford/AstraZeneca immunizations to Ghana, under the COVAX Initiative, is surely essential help to our battle against the COVID-19 pandemic and mirrors the sincere and friendly relations among Ghana and India. Besides, it underscores the shared responsibility of our two governments to work in fortitude and association to address regular difficulties, including the COVID-19 pandemic".

The underlying tranche of conveyances of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 antibody were gotten on February 24, 2021.

The primary shipment of the immunizations from Covax was upheld by the World Health Organization as a component of endeavors to obtain and circulate vaccinations free of charge to helpless nations.

"These 600,000 Covax immunizations are important for an underlying tranche of conveyances of the AstraZeneca/Oxford antibody authorized to the Serum Institute of India, which address part of the main rush of Covid immunizations went to a few low and center pay nations," said UNICEF, which coordinated the shipment from Mumbai, in a joint articulation with the WHO.

Covax has said it would convey two billion portions of COVID-19 immunizations worldwide before the finish of 2021