Members of Parliament and the parliamentary service staff are expected to received Covid-19 booster vaccination before the House resumes for its sittings for the first meeting of the second session.
This was contained in a letter the Speaker Alban Bagbin addressed to the President.
According to the Speaker, the move is to prevent the spread of the virus in the house after it resumes from recess for business on Tuesday, January 25, 2022.
The letter indicated that the exercise has become necessarily in the face of the spread of the new Omicron variant.
“Prior to the resumption of the House, Parliament intends to undertake a COVID-19 (Booster) vaccination exercise for Honorable Members of Parliament and Officers of the Parliamentary Service as part of measures to contain the infection and spread of the coronavirus disease within the Parliamentary precinct, particularly in the wake of the spike in infections as well as the new wave of the Omicron variant of the disease,” the statement said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
