President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the government is on course to procuring 42 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines to achieve its targeting 20 million vaccinated Ghanaians by the end of the year.
Nana Akufo-Addo said with the procurement of the vaccines, it is expected that Ghanaian adults population would be vaccinated.
The President said this in his address at the 11th quadrennial delegates congress of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Tuesday, 23 March, 2021, at Ejisu in the Ashanti region on the theme: "75 years of TUC: Building stronger union in a challenging world of work".
He said: "So far, nearly 500,000 persons have been vaccinated and the government is on course to procuring a total of 42 million vaccines to achieve the target of vaccinating 20 million Ghanaians by the end of the year. This will mean the entire adult population of our country would have been vaccinated by the end of the year".
Ghana's mass vaccination exercise against the coronavirus pandemic began Tuesday, 2 March, 2021 with some 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines.