1.5 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines arrive from Germany
Ghana has taken delivery of 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the German government in support of the fight against the virus in the West African country.
The Deputy Minister of Health, Mahama Asei Seini, received the vaccines on behalf of the Ghana government on Sunday 26 September at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
Ghana has since March 2020 recorded over 1,000 COVID-19 related deaths from over 125,000 confirmed cases.
On Friday (24 September), the Ghana Health Service (GHS) resumed its nationwide COVID-19 vaccination exercise.
The GHS in a statement said “this phase of the exercise is open to the general public”, adding that persons 18 years and older who have never received a vaccine or have received only “one dose of AstraZeneca are to participate in this exercise.
Since March 2021, over one million persons have received at least one dose of AstraZeneca, Sputnik-V or Johnson & Johnson vaccine with nearly 800,000 of them fully vaccinated.
The US government has promised to donate some 1.3 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Ghana in addition to the 1.2 million Moderna vaccines from America on 4 September 2021.
