ACCRA, Feb 24, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Ghana is scheduled to receive Wednesday
the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax, a World Health
Organization-backed effort to procure and distribute inoculations for free to
poor countries.
“These 600,000 Covax vaccines are part of an initial tranche of deliveries of
the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine licensed to the Serum Institute of India,
which represent part of the first wave of Covid vaccines headed to several
low and middle-income countries,” said UNICEF, which organised the shipment
from Mumbai, in a joint statement with the WHO.
Covax has said it would deliver two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines
globally by the end of 2021.