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A manual containing additional information on the Covid19 vaccination in Ghana is being developed by the Information Ministry to intensify public education in the coming days, former deputy Health Minister, Dr.
With 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca corona vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India already in the country, with distribution to persons with underlying conditions, health workers and essential services providers already set to take off from next week, there is the need to understand one other important double-faced aspect of the vaccines we have in Ghana.
Ghana has so far settled on two vaccines for the country: the AstraZeneca and Sputnik-V vaccines, but one other interesting thing about these vaccines is that for each or either of them, they require two shots to fully complete the process of vaccination.
A total of 575,941 cases recorded since the onset of the pandemic
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Far from the finish line, Pakistan’s fight against the novel coronavirus began exactly one year ago today. A household name now, the Covid-19 virus was first detected shortly after 22-year-old Yahya Jaffery arrived from Iran.
At the temperature screening gates at Karachi’s international airport, Jaffery was allowed to pass through despite showing early signs of the disease. Little did he know that he would end up being the first carrier of the Covid-19 virus in Pakistan.
Owing to the symptoms, Jaffery got himself tested for coronavirus in the following days. Now healthy, Jaffery describes the mandatory isolation as the most painful moment in his life. “It should be faced with courage, said the survivor.