Ghana has taken delivery of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from Covax.
This is a World Health Organization-backed effort to procure and distribute inoculations for free to poor countries.
At least 600,000 AstraZeneca doses today were delivered by an Emirati Airline at the Kotoka International Airport at about 7:00 am on Wednesday.
The vaccines were received by a government delegation led by the Minister for Health-designate, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu (MP).
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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