Government is working to vaccinate 19.2 million unvaccinated Ghanaians, according to Dr. Aboagye DaCosta, COVID Taskforces Director of Risk Communication.
He said the government expected some Russian Sputnik V vaccines, and also a share of 80 million US vaccines COVAX was securing.
Dr. Aboagye in said the rest of the Ghanaian population’s hope of being vaccinated were these two vaccine sources.
“Bear in mind we also have some 19.1 or 19.2 something million Ghanaians who are also waiting to have their first jab.
“So we’re expecting some Sputnik vaccines in to add to what we have initially received and that program will also start”, he noted.
Dr Aboagye attributed the delay in securing enough vaccines to India’s halt in exporting vaccines due to their worsening COVID situation.
“We are trying all means. When the President spoke, he talked about vaccine war politics and also the fact that India were we had our first COVAX doses, they’re also experiencing a third wave.
“So the whole global supply chain is actually in a little bit of crisis but in saying so, we are trying, now I certainly know that the UN bodies are doing whatever, they’re appealing to countries on what we call ‘vaccine share’,
“I know the US for example has put up a statement that they have 80 million vaccines to be shared.
“So I’m sure that they could give that to the COVAX facility to be shared among the 92 countries in need. And also some countries Denmark and other countries”, Dr. Aboagye declared.
Ghana would immediately deploy vaccines thanks to systems in place to make, Dr. Aboagye said an interview with Joy News on Wednesday.
“So what we have done in Ghana, we’ve prepare our staff in such a way that immediately we get the vaccines, we deploy.
“We have the systems in place to make sure that we obviously deploy immediately we have the vaccines.
“I can assure the 19 million people who have not have their first dose that certainly there is a plane for them”, he said.
Ghanaians that had received their first COVI9-19 jabs are to complete their inoculation by end of May, with a second.
After the government announced the commencement of the second dose vaccination days ago, the exercise started yesterday, Wednesday.
Drones delivered boxes of Covid-19 vaccines in hard-to-reach areas in the country.
Reallocated from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where uptake has been low, the Ghana is administering 360,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines.
The exercise is taking place in 43 districts and only people who have had their first jab will be eligible.
Since the exercise started in March, nearly 900,000 Ghanaians have been vaccinated.
Source: JoyNews