Ghana receives 600,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine
The COVID-19 vaccination which will begin on March 2 will be conducted in phases among segmented populations.
Jonas Danquah 
Ghana has today, February 24, has received some 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India (Covishield).
This is the first batch of vaccines Ghana is expected to take out of a total of 2.4 million doses.
The vaccines which arrived at the Kotoka International Airport on an Emirates Airlines cargo, EK787, was received by a delegation led by the Minister of Health designate, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu.
The mass vaccination which is expected to begin on March 2 will be conducted in phases among segmented populations.
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The first segment of the population that will receive from the doses will be health workers, adults 60 years and over, people with underlying health conditions, frontline executive, legislature, judiciary and their related staff, frontline security personnel, some religious leaders, essential workers, teachers and other personalities in Greater Accra Metro including Awutu Senya and Awutu Senya East in the Central Region.
A similar segmented population in the Greater Kumasi Metro and Obuasi municipality will also be covered.
The Information Minister-designate at a public engagement on Covid vaccination noted that government officials will publicly take doses of the Covid-19 vaccines before the mass vaccination exercise.
