Akufo-Addo’s Gov’t to organize ceremony to welcome COVID-19 vaccines

The Akufo-Addo led administration will organize a ceremony to welcome COVID-19 vaccines which will be received today.

“The brief ceremony will be televised on Ghana Television (GTV) and also on the Ministry of Information’s Facebook page,” portion of the statement signed by Munira Karim, Public Relations Officer at the Ministry of Information read.

Ghana is to begin Covid-19 vaccination on March 2 as government takes delivery of 600,000 AstraZeneca doses today.

The Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine was made by the Serum Institute of India (Covishield).

“This is the first consignment of vaccines acquired through the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX) which Ghana, among 92 countries, has signed unto.

“Covid-19 vaccination will be conducted in phases among segmented populations.

According to him, “the first segment of the population that will receive from the 600,000 doses will be health workers, adults 60 years and over, people with underlying health conditions, frontline executive, legislature, judiciary and their related staff, frontline security personnel, some religious leaders, essential workers and teachers.”