COVID-19: GHS Embarks On Intensive Nationwide Vaccination Ahead of Xmas

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will begin another phase of the Covid-19 vaccination exercise which is the fifth ahead of Christmas and the New Year celebrations.

Under the theme, Protect Yourself, Protect Your Family, Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19, this edition is expected to vaccinate over 1.4 million people between 14th and 18th December 2023.

The latest vaccination drive, expected to last for five days, is to prevent a possible surge in cases of Covid-19 before, during and after the Christmas festivities.

Addressing the media, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye, called on the citizenry to disregard reports that the Pfizer vaccine to be used during the period has expired.

“The current expiry for Pfizer is 15 months and not the 12 months [being speculated]. This issue that we are administering the expired vaccine is not true,” Dr Aboagye said.

The GHS has currently administered 21,179,341 vaccine doses as of November 30.

So far, about 171,023 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded, with more than 169,553 recoveries.

A total of 1,461 deaths had been recorded.

Meanwhile, the GHS has also confirmed that existing Covid-19 prevention measures at the airport for visitors have been strengthened to reduce the number of cases which may enter the country.