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+ A management consultant, Mr Ishmael Yamson, has entreated the government not to depend solely on donors and bilateral and multilateral benevolence for vaccines to protect the citizens against COVID-19. He opined that resources to fund the procurement and deployment of the first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines must come from domestic sources and not borrowed funds. According to him, the country needed “to demonstrate that we are ready to help ourselves” before calling for external support...

Ghana will be taking stock of the COVID-19 vaccines by close of this week. This is contrary to earlier assurances by government that the vaccines will arrive on Monday, February 22, 2021.

Tuesday, 17:07, 23/02/2021 VOV.VN - In the long term, the nation will take steps to provide free novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for citizens in the same way it offers vaccines against epidemics in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).  Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control chairs the meeting  This point of view was widely shared during a meeting held on February 23 in Hanoi among members of the Nati...

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu has disclosed that he is ready to take his COVID-19 vaccine in the full glare of his constituents.

Namibia readies for COVID-19 vaccine roll-out     The country is expected to receive enough doses of the vaccine as part of the program to immunize 60% of the population.   The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula while addressing Parliament said that the ministry has received a letter from the Covax Facility stating that Namibia can expect to be distributed doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine within the next two weeks.   The minister said Namibia has made a significant...

• NCOC reports 1,340 new cases, 36 deaths ISLAMABAD: With 504,500 doses of Covid-19 vaccine having been dispatched to the federating units, Pakistan is expected to receive another 5.6 million vaccines by the end of March. As so far only 72,882 frontline healthcare workers have got themselves vaccinated in the country, the government has decided to start registering general health professionals, too, from Monday (Feb 22) for the vaccination programme. The National Command and Operation C...

The Information Minister-designate has disclosed that government officials will publicly take doses of the Covid-19 vaccines before the mass vaccination exercise to disabuse the minds of those who have misgivings about their safety for use.

Public Engagement On COVID-19 Vaccination Roll Out Plan [LIVESTREAM]

The government has outdoored the national coronavirus vaccine deployment plan. The plan was presented to stakeholders at a public engagement organized by government at the Alisa Hotel in Accra on Friday, February 19, 2021.

The national coronavirus vaccine deployment plan has been launched today. The Programme Manager for the Expanded Programme on Immunization, Ghana Health Service (GHS) Dr Kwame Amponso-Achiano noted that the distribution strategies for the vaccine would be based on segmentation of the population.