President Akufo-Addo has announced government’s intention to secure some 17,600,000 Covid-19 vaccines for the Ghanaian populace.
Making the assertion in his 23rd update on measures taken by government against the spread of coronavirus in the country, President Akufo-Addo stated the first batch of the vaccines is expected to be in the country by March.
According to him, government’s aim is to vaccinate the entire Ghanaian populace.
“Fellow Ghanaians, in Update No. 21, I indicated that Ghana is set to procure her first consignment of the COVID vaccines within the first half of this year. Since then, a lot of work has been done towards the realisation of this. Our aim is to vaccinate the entire population, with an initial target of twenty million people.”
“Through bilateral and multilateral means, we are hopeful that, by the end of June, a total of seventeen million, six hundred thousand (17.6 million) vaccine doses would have been procured for the Ghanaian people. The earliest vaccine will be in the country by March.”
“The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) will use its established processes for granting emergency-use-authorization for each vaccine in Ghana. As President of the Republic, I assure you that only vaccines that have been evaluated and declared as safe-for-use in Ghana will be administered,” said the president.
The country’s Covid-19 case count as of Friday, January 29, had more than doubled reaching 5,358 active cases with 64 confirmed deaths. On average, daily rates of infection now stand at 700.
