By March 2021, Ghana will be receiving an estimated 965,000 doses of Coronavirus vaccine.
This was made known in the COVAX interim distribution forecast shared by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance on Wednesday, February 3, 2021.
According to Gavi, Ghana’s initial batch of vaccines is between 35 and 40 percent of its total 2,412,000 vaccine allocation under the distribution for Africa.
Aside Ghana, the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine are also to be distributed to other African countries including Nigeria and Ethiopia.
Nigeria is due to receive 16 million doses, the largest share for a single country in Africa.
Following Nigeria are Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of Congo with 9 and 7 million shots respectively.
African Entertainment understands that the distribution of the vaccines is based on a number of factors including: the severity of the disease in COVAX-member nations, ability to meet storage and distribution conditions and level of health workers’ exposure to the coronavirus.
The COVAX interim distribution forecast will guide the allocation of about 336 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine and 1.2 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to participating middle- and lower-income countries around the world.
COVAX is a global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level.
On behalf of 190 participating economies, the initiative plans to access nearly two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, with concrete efforts underway to start delivery of vaccines under the COVAX programme later this month- February.
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