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I’ll take COVID-19 vaccine March 1, it’s safe – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo says he’ll publicly take the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, March 1, 2021, to assure Ghanaians that the vaccine is safe.

He’s dispelled rumours that the vaccines cause infertility in both men and women.

“As your President, I want to assure you that the vaccine is safe. That is why tomorrow, on Monday, 1st March, ahead of the commencement of the vaccination programme on Tuesday, 2nd March, my wife the First Lady, the Vice President, his wife the Second Lady, and I will take the vaccine publicly at two (2) health facilities in Accra,” President Akufo-Addo said during his 24th address to the nation on measures being taken to curb the coronavirus disease.

Ghana took delivery of the first shipment of 600,000 AstraZeneca doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Covax on Friday.

Ghana is scheduled to begin Covid-19 vaccination on March 2, 2021.

Covax has said it would deliver two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines globally by the end of 2021.

“These 600,000 Covax vaccines are part of an initial tranche of deliveries of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine licensed to the Serum Institute of India, which represent part of the first wave of Covid vaccines headed to several low and middle-income countries,” said UNICEF, which organised the shipment from Mumbai, in a joint statement with the WHO.

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