Ghana becomes first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through Covax

  24 February 2021    Read: 784
Ghana becomes first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through Covax

Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative, AzVision.az reports citing BBC.

The World Health Organization (WHO) programme aims to ensure that vaccines are shared fairly among all nations.

Covax is aiming to deliver about two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines globally by the end of the year.

A total of 600,000 doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University arrived in Ghana's capital Accra on Wednesday.

In a joint statement, the WHO and the United Nations children's fund (Unicef) said it was a "momentous occasion".

"The arrival of the Covid-19 vaccines into Ghana is critical in bringing the pandemic to an end," they said.

The West African country has recorded more than 80,700 cases of coronavirus and 580 deaths since the pandemic began. These numbers are believed to fall short of the actual toll because of low levels of testing.

The WHO and Unicef said the shipment represented "part of the first wave of Covid vaccines headed to several low and middle-income countries".


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