General News of Tuesday, 3 August 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Ghana began its vaccine rollout in March this year• President Akufo-Addo was the first recipient of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine• The Dep. It was the beginning of vaccine rollout in Ghana as he publicly received a shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Ghana has from March administered some 1.271 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to its populace. He explained that there has been a global shortage.“Every country as we speak today has been struggling to acquire these vaccines so it is not the question of government’s inability to pay for the vaccines. He added that: “We strongly believe, as arranged in this mid-year budget review that from this month onwards, government would be in a position to acquire at least 17 million vaccines to vaccinate the population.

Source: GhanaWeb August 03, 2021 15:22 UTC