The recently arrived COVID-19 vaccines doses is set to be distributed next week, Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare has said.
Dr Nsiah on an Accra based television station (Citi TV ) said people with underlying illnesses, health staff and vital services providers will be among the groups who will take shots of the 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine which arrived in the country on Wednesday, February 24, 2021.
He said “The deployment [of vaccines] will take place next week. We have segmented the country by populations and this is according to what the Ghana Health Service has done. Health workers are one of the groups [that will take the vaccines] because they are frontline workers. And some patients have underlying problems and also the aged”
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He also allayed concerns about the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine, given South Africa’s decision to place its introduction on hold after a study revealed “disappointing” findings against the country’s experimental COVID-19 version.
“The predominant variant that we have seen is the UK variant which is very susceptible to the AstraZeneca vaccine, so we do not have the problem that South Africa has.”
The Ministry of Information released a report enlisting locations for the initial vaccine deployment in Greater Accra which included Awutu Senya and Awutu Senya East in the Central City and related segmented population in the Greater Kumasi Metro and Obuasi municipality
The COVAX Facility aims to produce up to 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines this year.
The AstraZeneca vaccines will be deployed to specified health facilities in Ghana from March 2.
Source: ATLFMNEWSROOM
