Tag: Vaccine
COVID-19: Ghana to vaccinate pregnant women
Ghana can now be vaccinated against the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced on Wednesday (19 January).
According to the GHS, recent studies...
90,000 remaining health workers to receive COVID-19 jab from Monday –...
The Ghana Health Service will from tomorrow, continue its first phase COVID-19 vaccination exercise on some 90,000 health workers across the country.
This excludes...
Ghana to receive over 17million COVID vaccines by June
The Akufo-Addo administration is set to procure more than 17million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of June, a caretaker Minister of Finance, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu...
Gov’t won’t sanction non vaccine takers – Info Ministry
The government has denied media reports that non vaccine takers will be sanctioned.
A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday 10 March 2021 by the...
Ghana faces hurdles to achieve targets set for COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Ghana, like many of its counterparts on the continent, is contending with the fallout from the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Of particular concern...
WHO says no sign SA virus variant can resist vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that there is no sign that a coronavirus variant identified in South Africa can resist vaccines.
WHO's technical...
Make COVID-19 vaccine available to all – Akufo-Addo urges world powers
President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on world leaders to ensure that in the event that a vaccine is found...
COVID-19 in West Africa: Credible Information as a Vaccine Against Misinformation?
In the social media age, information spreads faster than any virus and there seems to be no vaccine against misinformation. As governments struggle to...