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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will tomorrow begin public deployment of the COVID-19 vaccines in 43 districts identified as the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic in Ghana.
These include 25 districts in Greater Accra, 16 in Ashanti and two in the Central Region.
The exercise will be conducted from Tuesday 2nd March to 15th March 2021.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo disclosed this in his update No. 24 on measures taken against spread of the Coronavirus on Sunday.
He stated that the population, through the National Vaccine Deployment Plan, has been segmented into four groups for the vaccination exercise.
He said, “Group 1 is categorised as “persons most at risk and frontline State officials”.
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It includes healthcare workers, frontline security personnel, persons with underlying medical conditions, persons sixty (60) years and above, and frontline members of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary.”
Group 2 is made up of other essential service providers and the rest of the security agencies.
It includes water and electricity supply services, teachers and students, supply and distribution of fuels, farmers and food value chain, telecommunications services, air traffic and civil aviation control services, meteorological services, air transport services, waste management services, media, public and private commercial transport services, the Police Service, Armed Forces, Prisons Service, Immigration Service, National Fire Service, CEPS Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, and other members of the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislature.”
Group 3 consists of the rest of the general public; that is all persons over eighteen (18) years, except for pregnant women.”
The final group, that is Group 4, will include pregnant mothers and persons under the age of eighteen (18).”
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They will be vaccinated when an appropriate vaccine is found, or when enough safety data on the present vaccines is available. Special arrangements will be made for persons with disabilities who fall within these groups.”
President Akufo-Addo assured that while concentrating on the 43 epicentre-districts, preparations are being made for the vaccination of 20 million Ghanaians through the deployment of 12,471 vaccinators, 37,413 volunteers, and 2,079 supervisors for the entire vaccination campaign.
He, however, warned that the rollout of the vaccination campaign does not mean Ghanaians should let their guard down, and discard the safety protocols.
The President charged Ghanaians to continue to wash hands under running water, maintain social distancing, refrain from shaking hands and hugging, and continue wearing the nose mask.
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