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Only a Million Ghanaians are Fully Vaccinated Against Coronavirus – GHS


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November 23, 2021 at 4:11 PM

A little over one million Ghanaians out of over thirty million population have been fully vaccinated against the COVID-19, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said.

This, according to the GHS, is way below he target of vaccinating about 20 million Ghanaians by the end of 2021.

The Public Health Physician Specialist at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, revealed in an interview with 3FM's Sunrise on Monday hosted by Alfred Ocansy.

"Just about a million people have been fully vaccinated, but we have 4.7 million doses now", he said.

He explained that 24% of the total population had received one doses of the coronavirus vaccines".

For the two doses, you get vaccinated when you receive both. AA little over 3.5 million have received a dose which is way below the 20 million people we target we planned to achieve for the end of the year.

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