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Ghana will begin its second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination exercise on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, President Akufo-Addo, has announced.
The President made this known in his 25th national address on Ghana’s covid-19 situation and the measures taken by the government to stop the spread of the virus countrywide.
“I am happy to announce that beginning Wednesday, May 19 to Wednesday 26 May, the deployment of the second dose of vaccines will take place across the designated vaccination centres in the 43 districts approximately 12 weeks after the first jab as the science prescribes. More details of the deployment will be communicated by the Ghana Health Service in the coming week,” he said.
About 350,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines on Friday, May 7, 2021, landed in Accra from the Democratic Republic of Congo through COVAX.
The vaccines arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) aboard a Turkish Airline flight- Airbus A330 Kushimoto.
Ghana has so far inoculated about 850,000 people, with a focus on health and frontline workers, persons with underlying medical conditions, and people over 60 years.
