Ghana's Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu says government is facing some hurdles in procuring more vaccines to deal with the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ghana.

According to him, the high global demand for the vaccines has posed a great challenge to government’s quest to bring in more of the vaccines.

Speaking to Accra based Citi News, he assured the citizenry that government is doing everything possible to get more vaccines.

“We are having challenges in supplies just like across the globe. There are those who have money invested in the development, and they are keeping on to the stocks.”

“Last week if you heard, Italy blocked consignments that were bound for Australia. Stocks are just not available, but we are working with networks and the president is also helping us with this.”

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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.

This was followed by a donation of 50,000 vaccines from the Indian government.

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