Some traders at Tema Community One market as well as residents of Kpone-Katamanso Municipality on Wednesday expressed mixed reactions on the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccination exercise.
Mr Kwaku Aggeman-Manu, the Minster of Health-designate, at 0700 hours today, February, 24th, 2021 on behalf of the Government of Ghana received the nation’s first batch of the COVID-19 vaccine.
In a random interview with residents in Tema and Kpone-Katamanso by the Ghana News Agency Tema team, some school of thought admitted that the coronavirus had retarded the progress of the country and it was good to receive the vaccine, which would help to improve the health condition of the citizens.
According to the school of thought, they are ready to take the vaccine because according to them government have invested more funds to secure the medication to protect citizen, “so we must be prepared to partake in the COVID-19 vaccination exercise”.
Most of the traders who said they were ready to partake in the vaccination stressed that even though it might not be compulsory to take the vaccine, it may be a requirement for traveling outside the country very soon.
“The same applies to the yellow fever vaccine, many people refused to go for the vaccination at the Tema Harbour, but now whenever you want to travel outside the country, you are required to present a yellow fever card as part of your particulars that shows that you have been vaccinated,” some of the traders stated.
The other school of thought who kicked against participation in the COVID-19 vaccination based their argument on the ‘wrong foundation’ that COVID-19 was for the affluent people especially those who had air condition at the work places, the homes, cars hence the government will be making money out of it.