The Director of communications at the office of the presidency, Mr. Eugene Arhin has hinted that government will take delivery of some 1,229,620 Moderna vaccines Saturday September 4, 2021.
Mr. Eugene Arhin added that an additional 1.3 million Pfizer vaccines are also expected in the country by the end of this month.
The arrival of the Pfizer vaccine will be the first in the country as Johnson and Johnson, AstraZaneca and Sputnik V are the only vaccines that have been used in the country so far.
Earlier in the week, government announced that it will receive 1.5 million vaccines out of the 70 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines granted to Africa by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.
Ghana began its COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, as part of measures to stop the further spread of the disease.
This follows the arrival of the first 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield, on February 24, 2021.
That made the country the first of 92 beneficiary countries to receive vaccines from the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX), according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The facility, being championed by the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI), the WHO, and other international organisations, is offering beneficiary countries a total vaccine amounting to at least 20 per cent of its population for free.
The government says the initial delivery constituted the first consignment of vaccines the country would receive.
As of August 18, 2021, a total of 1,765,050 vaccines had come into the country, out of which 1,566,450 were AstraZeneca double-schedule vaccine.
Under the National Vaccine Deployment Plan (NVDP) for COVID-19, the government in February 2021 received the initial 600,000 doses of COVISHILED AstraZeneca under the COVAX facility.
A section of the population was recently also been vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which arrived in the country last month under the African Union’s African Vaccine Acquisition Trust initiative.
A total of 177,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were administered to unvaccinated persons in COVID-19 hotspots in the Greater Accra Region and the Ashanti Region.
Before the latest round of vaccinations with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, only 405,971 had received both doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines whilst 865,422 had received one dose.
Currently some Ghanaians are receiving their second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines.
