ACCRA: Ghana is to receive the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free to poor countries, Unicef and the World Health Organization said.
It said the 600,000 doses are part of an initial tranche of deliveries of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine licensed to the Serum Institute of India, “which represent part of the first wave of Covid vaccines headed to several low and middle-income countries”. “In the days ahead, frontline workers will begin to receive vaccines,” Unicef executive director Henrietta Fore said.
Covax, led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, WHO and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations , said it would deliver 2 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines to its members by the end of the year, including 2,412,000 doses to Ghana.