The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced that the AstraZeneca vaccinations brought into the country last week will be administered to people who are eligible for their second jab.
However, according to the GHS, not everyone who received the first jab is qualified for the second jab.
In an interview with Citi News, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director General of the Ghana Health Service, stated that individuals who have passed the 12-week mark since the first jab would be prioritized.
He said that GHS has information about all people who are eligible for second vaccinations.
“We have statistics and evidence from people who received their vaccinations early, because as of now, not everybody is still entitled to get the second dose because it is dependent on when you received the first dose.”
“So we are going to stick to the same schedule to ensure that those who are due and those that are near to the 12 weeks are our focus before everything is done,” he added.
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Ghana received 350,000 additional doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday, May 7, 2021, as part of the COVAX initiative.
The GHS plans to start giving the second dose in the middle of May 2021.
When did Ghana’s vaccination exercise start?
On March 2, 2021, Ghana began mass vaccination against the coronavirus with the deployment of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines produced by the Serum Institute of India.
Aside from the COVAX assistance, Ghana obtained 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from the Indian government and 165,000 from MTN.
According to the Ghana Health Service, the country has vaccinated almost 900,000 people against the virus.
