General News of Sunday, 8 August 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com•The Health Ministry has received over a 100,000 doses of vaccines to curb COVID-19• The Johnson & Johnson vaccines were procured under the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) initiative. • More than one million Ghanaians have been fully vaccinated since the first consignment (COVAX Astrazaneca) was received earlier this yearGovernment through the Health Ministry has disclosed it has taken delivery of some 177,600 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The vaccines will be administered as single-shot doses to immunize citizens, to help curtail the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. A tweet posted on Saturday August 7, 2021 read; "The government of Ghana today received over 177,600 the single-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccines procured under the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) initiative." According to the Ghana Health Service, only a little over a million citizens out of a 30 million population have been vaccinated.

Source: GhanaWeb August 08, 2021 10:18 UTC