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A total of 69,820 persons have been vaccinated against coronavirus from March 02 to 04 in the 43 selected districts in Accra, Kumasi, and the Central region, data from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has shown.
The Programme Manager of the Extended Programme on Immunization (EPI), Dr Kwame Amponsah-Achiano told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on Friday that since the beginning of the vaccination exercise last Tuesday, 16,563 adults above 60 years and 8,313 persons with underlining health conditions have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Similarly, 891, frontline media persons, 963 special groups on national assignments, 2,535 teachers about 50 years and above, and 14,560 of the general population had also been vaccinated.
Dr Achino said the vaccination exercise for the first target groups had been smooth without any major challenges.
"We expect that within the next few days, we would have been able to complete the 570,000 doses that we have dished out for the first group," he said and projected that vaccine wastage would be very minimal although five per cent of the 600,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine available had been earmarked as potential waste.
Dr Achino announced that the country had received additional 50,000 doses of Covishield, the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, produced by the Serum Institute of India from the Government of India, for free.
He advised the public to actively get involved in the Covid-19 vaccination exercise saying, "the opportunity has come for us to go back to our normal lives and we need to take this advantage to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. When we have a critical mass of people vaccinated, we break the transmission, Covid-19 will be a thing of the past and life will be normal again. "
Dr Achino encouraged the public to keep adhering to the Covid-19 safety protocols.
In all, a total of 20 million Ghanaians are expected to be vaccinated against the virus. Ghana has since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, recorded about 83,239 cases, 79, 465 recoveries, and 629 deaths.
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