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Use of COVAX vaccines in Ghana. According to the Ghana Health Service, the COVID-19 vaccine would be free of charge for Ghanaians. [14] Dr. Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Director of Public Health at GHS, pregnant women and children below 16 years were exempted from the first phase of the vaccination exercise. [15]
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Vaccination has been one of the most impactful public health interventions of the past century. Since the foundation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974, vaccines have provided the single greatest contribution to improving health outcomes globally, particularly among children and infants.
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A Vaccine Professional claimed Ghana and other African countries were ready for the vaccine rollout. [366] The GHS claimed there were post-COVID-19 clinics for recovered people of the virus, [ 367 ] it also claimed Ghanaians should not be scared of the COVID-19 vaccine, [ 368 ] it also revealed less than 50% of churches do not sanitize musical ...
The Ghana Women's Premier League was set to begin in January 2021 after the government placed a ban on all football related activities in March 2020 due to COVID-19. [99] Following the lifting of the ban on football Government with the GFA begun the COVID-19 testing of players and club members of Ghana Premier league clubs on 22 October. [100]
Ghana began its vaccination program on 1 March 2021 using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine provided through COVAX. [82] In early May 2021, it was reported that Ghana had administered all of the doses it had so far received. [41] [83] 18% of the targeted population had been fully vaccinated by the end of 2021.
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