General News of Monday, 27 September 2021Source: GNAThe Ghana Health Service (GHS) said evidence locally and internationally shows that vaccination against the Covid-19 accounts for the steady decline in positive cases. Ghana has recorded 128 positive cases of COVID-19 this September, 273 in August and 500 in July, this year. The GHS said as of September 23, 2021, there were 3,578 active cases, 1,147 deaths, 122,000 recoveries and 126,803 cumulative positive cases after 1.7 million tests. Dr Kuma-Aboagye said the country had received nearly five million doses of the AstraZeneca Covishield from India, 21,000 doses of Sputnik V, 450,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson, and 1.2 million of Moderna vaccines. Achieving herd immunity againstthe Covid-19 had been government’s primary goal to halt the spread of the disease, he said.

Source: GhanaWeb September 26, 2021 20:37 UTC