The Programme Manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Kwame Amponsah-Achiano has stressed the need for Ghanaians to vaccinate against the covid-19.
He said so far, the GHS has received over 12.7 million vaccines and distributed the majority of them for the vaccination exercise.
He disclosed that some 5.4 million persons have been vaccinated with 4.2 million persons receiving their first dose or second dose.
He said the vaccination exercise was going on smoothly and Ghanaians must be vaccinated.
He indicated that the plan for the vaccination is to adopt what is known as equitable distribution.
He posited that persons who are unvaccinated against Covid-19 are more susceptible to death if infected by the virus.
Given this, there was the need for everyone to get vaccinated, he cautioned.
The virus he noted keeps changing its sequence and we all need to support the vaccination efforts to help deal with the outbreak.
The GHS has employed the use of the AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, Sputnik-V and Johnson & Johnson vaccines in its exercise.
The government has procured some 12,324, 710 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in its fight against the pandemic.
Currently, a total of 1,404,122 Ghanaians have been fully immunized against the virus, representing 7 per cent of the entire population.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
