General News of Tuesday, 11 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comDr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service has said that priority will be given to persons due for second jabs in the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived in the country last week. Government on Friday, May 7, 2021, took delivery of 350,000 doses of the vaccines to begin the second round of jabs. But Dr Kuma-Aboagye explained that not all persons who took the first shot are due for the second jab hence the decision to give it those who qualify. He said that some persons have clocked the 12 weeks mark and will be given priority to them. Meanwhile, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service has said in an interview that the vaccines received from Congo would expire on June 24, approximately seven weeks from now.

Source: GhanaWeb May 11, 2021 08:15 UTC