17 million COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Ghana in March – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has said the country is anticipating the arrival of more than seventeen million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of March 2021. 

According to him, government is hoping to vaccinate the entire population beginning with 20 million people.

“Fellow Ghanaians, in Update No. 21, I indicated that Ghana is set to procure her first consignment of the COVID vaccines within the first half of this year. Since then, a lot of work has been done towards the realization of this. Our aim is to vaccinate the entire population, with an initial target of twenty million people.

“Through bilateral and multilateral means, we are hopeful that, by the end of June, a total of seventeen million, six hundred thousand (17.6 million) vaccine doses would have been procured for the Ghanaian people. The earliest vaccine will be in the country by March,” the President in his update of the COVID-19 situation in the country.”

Meanwhile the testing for COVID-19 for all nationals of ECOWAS have been reduced to $50.

“At the 58th Summit of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, held virtually, it was agreed that the cost of the COVID-19 test for inbound ECOWAS nationals should be pegged at fifty United States dollars ($50) at the Kotoka International Airport. The cost of the COVID test for non-ECOWAS nationals at the Kotoka International Airport still remains one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars,” he added.