Ghana to start administering second vaccine doses
Ghana received 350,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on Friday to enable them start offering second doses of the shot after it nearly ran out.
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The health ministry disclosed this yesterday saying the West African country was the first to receive vaccines from the World Health Organisation-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing scheme in February and kicked off its vaccination campaign in early March.
The 350,000 doses it received on Friday were part of a batch of 1.7 million doses the COVAX scheme delivered to the Democratic Republic of Congo on March 2.
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