{"id":18280,"date":"2021-03-02T07:01:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T07:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=18280"},"modified":"2021-03-02T07:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T07:01:57","slug":"ghana-begins-mass-vaccination-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=18280","title":{"rendered":"Ghana begins mass vaccination against Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>After nearly a year of recording the first\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0index cases, Ghana will begin vaccinating its citizens against the virus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exercise will take off on Tuesday, March 2 in the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan areas, where a lockdown was imposed last year in the peak of the infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Awutu Senya East and Awutu Senya West in the Central Region as well as Obuasi in the Ashanti Region will also be covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all, 43 districts considered the epicenters of the pandemic will be covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/covid-19-over-50-kids-in-a-r-infected-in-jan-feb\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a8p5q6x6.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Covid-19-vaccination1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179828\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The exercise is scheduled to end on Monday, March 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the mass vaccination,\u00a0President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0and\u00a0Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia\u00a0and their spouses took the jabs of the vaccines on Monday, March 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a8p5q6x6.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Akufo-Addo-vaccination-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179803\"\/><figcaption><em>President Nana Akufo-Addo was vaccinated at the 37 Military Hospital<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghana received 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines from the Serum Institute of India last Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The West African country became the first country to take delivery of the COVAX vaccines when it received the consignment at the Kotoko International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already, the Vaccine Deployment Plan has been well received by the\u00a0World\u00a0Health\u00a0Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe vaccine deployment plan we submitted to WHO, which unlocked this consignment, was well-received,\u201d President Akufo-Addo said on Sunday, February 28 in a televised broadcast address to the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey have done a yeoman\u2019s job, and our nation is indebted to them. 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