Ahafo Region to register 39,105 persons in the  5-days National Campaign 

Health authorities in the Ahafo Region are hoping to vaccinate at least 39,105 persons as it takes delivery of another consignment of COVID-19 vaccines.

 The Regional Health Directorate has launched a 5-day vaccination campaign from February 2nd to February 6, 2022. 
The programme dubbed; “Protect Yourself, Protect your Family, Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19 Now”, aims at covering at least 20 per cent of the 13.2 million unvaccinated population in the country. 
The targeted persons include pregnant women, lactating mothers and persons above the age of 15.
 The Ahafo Regional Director of Ghana Health Service, Dr Kwabena  Boakye  Boateng indicated that some staff have been dispatched to various areas for the 5-day vaccination exercise. Dr Boakye Boateng, therefore, urged stakeholders in the Ahafo region including the local council of churches, the Muslim community and chiefs in the region to ensure their people get vaccinated.
The Ahafo Regional Minister, Hon George Boakye cautioned again misinformation about the vaccine.
“There is not an iota of truth in all those misconceptions, ignore them”, he stressed. 
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
The first two cases in Ghana were confirmed on 12 March 2020, when two infected people came to Ghana, one from Norway and the other from Turkey.
These imported cases initiated the first contact tracing process in Ghana, helping detect several dozens of cases in a short period.
Following the discovery that the pandemic had already started to spread in Ghana, the government instituted measures to stop the local spread of the infection and any further import of the virus into the country.
Measures included shutting all land borders to the country together with the closure of the main international airport in Accra. 
Intermediary initiatives saw persons entering the country between the time of the announcement and the shutting of the borders being quarantined in 4 and 5-star hotels at the expense of the Ghanaian government.