COVID-19 Vaccine: Ghana Records Africa’s Historic First COVID-19 Vaccine: Ghana Records Africa’s Historic First Ghana has recorded a historic first in Africa, for the international partnership to provide equitable COVID-19 vaccine for all. Six hundred thousand doses of the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine from the United Nations-partnered COVAX initiative have landed the West African country. The joint UN-led COVAX initiative aimed to start shipping about 90 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa this February, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) early in the month. The immunization rollout will be the continent’s largest ever mass vaccination campaign. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, highlighted that the deployment is a “critical first step” to ensure countries access to vaccines.