The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has called on Ghanaians to ignore conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 Vaccine and prepare for the nationwide vaccination exercise.
Dr Kofi Amo-Kodieh, the Bono Regional Director of the GHS, who made the call, said the AstraZeneca vaccine had gone through various stages of vaccine manufacturing and had proven efficacious to build body immunity against the COVID-19.
Addressing a news conference in Sunyani, Dr Amo-Kodieh called on the media to intensify public education to help dispel the wrong perception of people about the vaccine.
He said the regional Health Directorate would meet religious bodies and traditional authorities in the region to find ways of tackling the myths and conspiracy theories about the vaccine before the start of the exercise.
Dr Amo-Kodieh warned that people who failed to turn up for the vaccination would expose themselves to the COVID-19 because of the sharp rise in cases being recorded in the region.