President Akufo-Addo took the jab at about 9:25am on March 1, 2021 at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.
Later in the morning, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and his wife, Samira, took their jabs of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Police Hospital in Accra. Dr Bawumia and wife took the jabs at about 10:14am on March 1, 2021.
Afterwards, Dr Bawumia called on his compatriots to cooperate with the exercise, and discard any myths and conspiracy theories about the vaccine. He said the vaccine is safe and that if it was not safe, the President would not have approved it or availed himself for the exercise.
Ghana on February 24, 2021, took delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India (Covishield).
It made Ghana the first country to receive the vaccine from the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX), which has 92 beneficiary countries signed on to it, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
Source: graphic.com.gh
