Some 9,890 persons were vaccinated in the first phase of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination exercise in Tema West, a review report by Tema West Municipal Health Directorate has revealed.
The vaccination exercise, segmented in phases, was conducted from March 2 to 8th, 2021; and targeted health workers, frontline security personnel, aged 60 years and above, teachers above 50 years, chronically ill persons and essential service providers.
The report made available to the Ghana News Agency at Tema indicated that in Tema West, the exercise initially targeted a sample size of 6,952, with 26 institutions marked for the vaccination campaign using an electronic appointment schedule for booking.
Out of the 9,890 persons vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, 4,784 of them were females representing 48 percent and 5,105 males representing 52 percent.
In all, 4,198 of the number came from Halcrow, Lashibi 2,641; Baatsona 1,386; Sakumono 1,015, and 650 from Adjei Kojo; all in the Tema West Municipality.
Also, some 3,995 persons representing 40 percent of the total vaccinated population were persons who were initially not targeted, while 3,172 persons above 60 years representing 32 percent were vaccinated; with some 992 Health Workers representing 10 percent taking their first jabs.