Malta donates over 135 covid-19 vaccines to Ghana

The Maltese government has donated over 135,000 Covid-19 vaccines to the government of Ghana, while it continues to show solidarity with countries in need, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The vaccine which was transported by a special Air Malta direct flight arrived in Ghana on Saturday.

Present at the airport to ensure the safe delivery of the vaccine was Malta’s High Commissioner to Ghana, H.E Jean Claude.

In line with the Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs' Strategy for Africa, in recent months, Malta has begun a campaign of donating hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses to countries that have been struggling to obtain enough of them.

However, Ghana is not the only African country to benefit from the sharing of vaccines by the Maltese government.

 About 340,000 vaccines have been donated by Malta, with Libya, Egypt and Rwanda benefiting from the national vaccine-sharing campaign.

This move by Malta is part of its plans to balance the inequality of distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in the Sub-Saharan Region.

"Malta is committed to doing its part to address this unequal distribution, as COVID-19 will not be solved until everyone is vaccinated," the spokesperson said.

 Ghana became the first country to receive vaccines through the UN-backed COVAX scheme, in February this year to combat the widespread of the deadly virus. 

So far, there have been over 130, 391 recorded cases of Covid-19, 1,188 deaths, and recovery of 127,702 in Ghana.

Freeman Kroyekpor