According to the Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, Ghana will shortly get the first shipment of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines via the COVAX program.
Dr. Nsiah-Asare said that the vaccines are anticipated to arrive in the country between the end of August and early September 2021.
“We are expecting 1,229,670 Pfizer vaccines for the first time in the country. We are also expecting Moderna which we also got to know about only last week. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are expected [to arrive in the country] anytime before this month [August] ends or early September.”
Both vaccines, according to Mr. Nsiah-Asare, are gifts from the United States government.
This comes after Ghana received 249,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the UK government on Tuesday, August 17th, 2021.
The vaccines were received at the Kotoka International Airport on Wednesday [August 18, 2021] by a Deputy Minister of Health, Tina Mensah, a Representative of the UK High Commission, Mr. John Whittle, and the UNICEF Representative, as well as other partners.
Dr. Nsian-Asare is also confident that the government would be able to achieve its goal of vaccinating 20 million Ghanaians.
“We are in a good shape and from this time to the end of the year, we are hoping to get all our vaccines,” he added.
Ghana is now distributing Johnson & Johnson vaccines, which arrived in the country last month as part of the African Union’s African Vaccine Acquisition Trust program.
In the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions, 177,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are presently being given to unvaccinated people in COVID-19 hotspots.
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