Persons accessing nightclubs, beaches, restaurants, and sports stadiums must be vaccinated against COVID-19 from December 2021 to January 2022, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
The regulation is important due to an expected rise in international arrivals, as well as possible mass gatherings and in-country events, which are likely to lead to a spike in Covid-19 cases over the Christmas holidays.
To that aim, the GHS said in December that it will begin mass vaccination at truck parks, marketplaces, churches, mosques, and sports stadiums in an effort to halt the virus's spread.
During this time, all government employees, security personnel, health workers, staff and students at secondary and tertiary education institutions, commercial drivers and their passengers, and staff of the three arms of government will be vaccinated.
The GHS Director-General, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, confirmed this at a press conference in Accra.
In coordination with security agencies around the country, he said the Service would beef up monitoring and enforcement of existing COVID-19 rules.
Ghana has not yet reported the severe COVID-19 variant dubbed Omicron, but he said the government would conduct more genome sequencing to see if there were any cases.
COVID-19 is likely to cause severe or critical illness in 87 percent of unvaccinated people, according to the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre, and the virus is seven times more likely to kill them.
Dr. Kuma-Aboagye said the GHS would tighten response mechanisms in anticipation of a spike in Covid-19 infections, intensify contact tracing and follow-ups, improve risk communication, and supply extra reagents for testing as p Dr. Kuma-Aboagye stated that 12.5 million vaccines have been received out of a total of 20 million vaccines targeted for this year, with 5.4 million people art of its Christmas strategy.
Dr. Kuma-Aboagye stated that 12.5 million vaccines have been received out of a total of 20 million vaccines targeted for this year, with 5.4 million people receiving vaccinations.
AstraZeneca received 5,469,470 vaccinations, accounting for 45.6 percent, Johnson and Johnson Vaccine received 186,150 vaccines, representing 19.4 percent, Moderna received 719,838, accounting for 10.0 percent, Pfizer received 725,562 (24.9 percent), and Sputnik V received 21,000 vaccines (0.2 per cent).
With 1.9 million tests completed, Ghana has recorded 131,082 positive cases of COVID-19.
There are 713 active cases right now, with 129,149 recoveries, 22 severe cases, and 1,220 deaths.
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