Ghana takes delivery of 350,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines

Ghana has today, May 7, taken delivery of its second batch of the Covid-19 vaccine.

A total of 350,000 doses the AstraZeneca vaccines arrived at the Kotota International Airport this morning.

Following a delay in the delivery of the vaccines, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye had assured Ghanaians that government was working assiduously to procure the next batch of the vaccines.

He explained that the delay in the procurement of additional Covid-19 vaccines is occasioned by the global scramble for vaccines and the unavailability of same.

This second batch of AstraZeneca vaccines forms part of a total of 1.3 million doses being distributed via the COVAX platform.

So far a total of 850,000 vaccinations have been carried out in the country after the first batch of the doses were received in February this year.

Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com