The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says over 200,000 individuals have so far taken the vaccine in the country.

The vaccination exercise began a week ago with the President, Vice President and their families taking the first jab.

Addressing the media on Monday, March 8 2021, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye disclosed that 220,252 are on record to have been vaccinated.

But this figure is expected to rise as the database is updated.

“Greater Accra alone has vaccinated 128,088 but they have about 58,000 [persons] vaccinated yet to be entered [into the database].” Dr. Kuma-Aboagye explained.

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The biggest day for vaccinations was on Saturday, March 6 with 46,780 persons vaccinated.

The Greater Kumasi area has seen 69,325 persons vaccinated.

Ghana was the first recipient of COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed by COVAX, a global vaccine sharing initiative.

Ghana took delivery of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India on February 24.

The government expects to take delivery of 2 million AstraZeneca Vaccines by the end of May also from the COVAX facility.

“We are expecting that between now and probably in May, we are expecting about two more million AstraZeneca vaccines from the COVAX facilities.”

He said there will be a focus on “all health workers in the country to ensure that they are also safe and they are able to render services.”