Some 200,000 Ghanaians have been vaccinated within a week, the Ghana Health Service has said.

GHS Director-General Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye told journalists on Monday, 8 March 2021 that the exact number was 220,252.

“Greater Accra alone has vaccinated 128,088 but they have about 58,000 vaccinated yet to be entered [into the database]” Dr Kuma-Aboagye noted.

So far, 69,325 persons have been vaccinated in the Greater Kumasi area.

Saturday, 6 March 2021 saw the highest number of single-day vaccinations – 46,780 persons.

Ghana is expected to take delivery of two million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX programme after being the first recipient on the African continent, of 600,000 doses a few weeks earlier.

“We are expecting that between now and probably in May, we are expecting about two more million AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX facilities”, Dr Kuma-Aboagye said, adding that they will focus on “all health workers in the country to ensure that they are also safe and they are able to render services.”

“We are currently going to adapt a locally-developed app, which will allow us to be able to schedule and do a pre-registration before you go and vaccinate.”

“It will generate your COVID-passport for you so we know all those who are getting and the database will be in Ghana,” Dr Kuma-Aboagye noted.