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Ghana receives first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses via COVAX Facility

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eMediNexus    25 February 2021

Ghana has become the first country to receive the COVID-19 vaccine doses through the COVAX Facility in a historic step towards ensuring that there is equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across the globe. 

In all, 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine were shipped by the COVAX Facility on February 23 from the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune, India to Accra, Ghana. The shipment arrived in Accra on the morning of February 24.  This is the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines delivered in Africa by the COVAX Facility. The program aims to deliver at least 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this year… (UNICEF, February 24, 2021)

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