The Ghana Health
Service (GHS) has announced that it will begin it’s 7th National COVID-19
Vaccination Days (NaCVAD-7) from tomorrow, July 19 to Sunday, July 23 aiming to
immunize about one million persons.
According to the
Service,10 million people out of more than 30 million population of the country
have fully received the vaccines with the rest yet to either vaccinate or
undergo complete vaccination.
Speaking at a
press briefing to launch the nationwide exercise, Director-General of the Ghana
Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye highlighted the existence of the virus
despite rumours that it is no more.
“As you may
recall on the 5th May 2023 the WHO Director-General through the advice of the
international health regulatory emergency committee determined that COVID-19
was now an established and ongoing health issue and which will no longer
constitute a public health emergency of international concern. He did not say
that COVID-19 is no more,” he said.
Meanwhile, the
country representative from the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Argata
Guracha Guyo assured commitment to support Ghana achieve herd immunity against
COVID-19.
“The WHO and its
sister UN agencies in Ghana will continue to support the government of Ghana
for a successful national COVID-19 campaign and by extension the achievement of
health for all,” he said.
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