Mahama and wife receive COVID-19 vaccine

Mahama together with his wife, Lordina received their jabs at the Police Hospital in Accra on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.

This was after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, and Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and his wife Mrs. Samira Bawumia took their vaccination against COVID-19.

Ghana on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, took delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India (Covishield).

It made Ghana the first country to receive the vaccine from the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX), which has 92 beneficiary countries signed on to it, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

The AstraZeneca boss said "This delivery is the first of many shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine expected over the coming weeks and months via COVAX that will take us closer to ensuring broad and equitable access."

Meanwhile, the Ghana Health Service will today, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, begin the national rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The service is targeting persons most at risk and frontline state officials in 43 districts for the vaccination.

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.