Former President John Mahama and his wife, Lordina Mahama have received their COVID-19 jabs at the Police Hospital in Accra.
President Akufo Addo and his wife, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and his Wife on Monday publicly took the vaccine at the 37 Military Hospital and Police Hospital respectively to convince people to get vaccinated.
The Ghana Health Service on Tuesday begun the vaccination of 600,000 Ghanaians against the Coronavirus disease.
The vaccination exercise will take place in 43 districts in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Central Regions.
This forms the first phase to vaccinate at least 20 million Ghanaians across the country.
Below is the list of priority persons for vaccination
Group 1
- Persons most at risk and frontline State officials
- Healthcare workers
- Frontline security personnel
- Persons with underlying medical conditions
- Persons 60 years and above
- Frontline members of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary
Group 2
- Other essential service providers and the rest of the security agencies
- Water and electricity supply services
- Teachers and students
- Supply and distribution of fuels
- Farmers and food value chain
- Telecommunications services
- Air traffic and civil aviation control services
- Meteorological services
- Air transport services
- Waste management services
- Media
- Public and private commercial transport services
- Police Service
- Armed Forces
- Prisons Service
- Immigration Service
- National Fire Service
- CEPS Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority
- Other members of the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislature
Group 3
Consists of the rest of the public, that is all persons over 18 years, except for pregnant women.
Group 4
This final group will include pregnant mothers and persons under the age of 18, and they will be vaccinated when an appropriate vaccine, hopefully, is found, or when enough safety data on the present vaccines are available according to the President.
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