Ghana will get 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from Germany.
The vaccines are a result of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s recent talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
At a Presidential Press Corps briefing on Monday, Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Jubilee House, said that procedures are already in place to guarantee that the vaccines arrive in the country for administration.
“The German Chancellor has made it known that, at least, Germany will be helping Africa with 70 million vaccines. The President had a bilateral meeting with the German Chancellor. One of the things that came out was the vaccine.”
“I am happy to inform Ghanaians that the German Chancellor made it known to the President that, a total of 1.2 million AstraZeneca vaccines were to be given to Ghana. A few moments ago, I got confirmation from the President that, this has increased to 1.5 million. According to the President, he is dispatching a plane to Germany to take delivery of the vaccines,” Mr. Arhin said.
The delivery of AstraZeneca vaccines from Germany would provide a significant boost to Ghana’s COVID-19 immunization campaign, which had been delayed for nearly two months.
When Ghana ramped up its efforts to combat COVID-19 earlier this year, AstraZeneca was the first vaccine to arrive.
Nearly half of the approximately 800,000 individuals who have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca are yet to get the second dose.
Those due for their second shots, however, will begin getting the vaccines on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions.
Ghana has already vaccinated a portion of its population with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which came last month through the African Union’s African Vaccine Acquisition Trust program.
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