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Here is what the experts are saying about the new COVID-19 vaccines

Newly updated vaccines against Covid-19 will be in pharmacies soon, just as the US is experiencing a surge of infections. But is it a...

COVID-19 vaccines not for free – Finance Ministry justifies Covid levy imposition

The Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Abena Osei Asare, has argued that the government will continue collecting the COVID-19 recovery levy to...
Food and Drugs Authority (FDA)

FDA allays concerns over AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine safety in Ghana

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has reaffirmed its commitment to monitoring the safety of all vaccines used in Ghana, including COVID-19 vaccines.The FDA...
Minister for Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu

Health Ministry moves to renegotiate COVID-19 vaccine contract

The Ministry of Health has given an assurance that efforts are being made to renegotiate the vaccine acquisition contract with the African Vaccine Acquisition...

42% of Covid-19 vaccines supplied to Volta Region gone waste – GHS

About 42% of the over 2.1 million doses of  Covid-19 vaccines supplied to the Volta Region have gone waste due to high hesitancy. Statistics from...

FDA boosts efforts to ensure safety of Covid-19 vaccines

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has outlined comprehensive safety monitoring measures to ensure that all Covid-19 vaccines deployed in Ghana are safe for...

WHO to visit Mampong Centre for Plant Medicine Research over local covid-19 vaccine

Some executives of the World Health Organisation (WHO) are expected to visit Mampong Centre for Plant Medicine Research to check the progress of the...

UNICEF launches first-ever ‘U-Report Challenge’ to boost Covid-19 vaccine uptake in Africa

A week after COVAX delivered its billionth dose in Rwanda, UNICEF has launched the first-ever U-Report Challenge, calling on all 13.3 million U-Reporters in...

Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing plant to be set up in 2 years – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo says government aims at building a domestic Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing plant in the next two years.According to him, the plant would...

Father on the run with 7-year-old daughter to stop her from getting Covid-19 vaccine

A Canadian man admitted on a right-wing talk show that he is keeping his daughter away from her mother and is staying in an...

Covid-19 vaccines are efficacious – GMA schools Concerned Ghanaian Doctors

The Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Titus Beyuo has reiterated that data gathered by health authorities show that the...

FDA denied my request for certified reports on adverse events of covid-19 vaccines –...

The Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, says the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has denied his request for certified...

COVID-19: Needle-free Covid-19 vaccine trial begins

A trial has begun of a new needle-free Covid-19 vaccine to protect against future variants of the virus.The vaccine, administered through a jet of...

Make Covid-19 vaccines available to all parts of the world – Akufo-Addo to EU

President Nana Akufo-Addo says he is “a firm believer in the statement that ‘no one is safe until everyone is safe'”.He is calling for...

Man takes 10 COVID-19 vaccine shots in a day

A man reportedly received the Covid-19 vaccine 10 times in one day after he was allegedly paid by anti-vaxxers to get their jabs.The man, who has...

Nigeria to destroy expired Covid-19 vaccines

The Nigerian government has responded to a Reuters news report that a million coronavirus vaccines in the country expired last month, by saying they “had been...

Multimedia Group partners GHS to administer covid-19 vaccines [Photos]

The Multimedia Group has collaborated with the Ayawaso Central Ghana Health Service (GHS) to administer the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine to the...
Director-General for the Ghana Health Service Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye

GHS receives protocols for administration of covid-19 vaccine

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has revised protocols for the administration of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.The revision includes people between ages 15 and 18...

4 million more COVID-19 vaccines coming – MoH

Ghana is expecting about four million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the next three weeks, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Health, Kwabena...
AstraZeneca

Ghana to receive over 6.4 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines by end of 2021...

Ghana’s fight against Covid-19 is expected to be given a boost with the arrival of over 6,410,960 doses of vaccines by the end of...

Ghana receives Pfizer covid-19 vaccines from US [Photos]

Ghana has taken delivery of over 1.3 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States (US) government through the COVAX facility....

Check out where to receive 1st and 2nd doses of Covid-19 vaccine

The Ghana Health Service today, Friday, began to vaccinate Ghanaians above the age of 17 years who have not yet been vaccinated against the...

Covid-19 vaccine: Ghana receives additional 244,800 doses of Johnson and Johnson

The government has taken delivery of additional 244,800 doses of the single-shot Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine.The vaccines secured through the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust...

Wife files for divorce after husband refused to get COVID-19 vaccine

A South African lady has filed for divorce from her husband of 18 years after he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine.Recounting how her husband,...
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COVID-19 vaccine: Drunkards Association sends strong message to GHS [ Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Drunkards Association send strong message to GHSThe Ghana Drunkards Association has said its members cannot comply with the one week ban on...

Nurse accused of replacing COVID-19 vaccines with saline solution

Authorities in Northern Germany have appealed to thousands of people to get another shot of the Covid vaccine.This was after a police investigation found...

Covid-19 vaccine: Govt receives over 177,000 doses of Johnson and Johnson [Photos]

The government has taken delivery of 177,600 doses of the single-shot Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine.The procurement was done under the African Vaccine Acquisition...

FDA approves two more Covid-19 vaccines

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has approved two more Covid-19 vaccines for importation, distribution, and use in Ghana.The two vaccines are Moderna (Spikevax)...

Man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines dies of virus [Photo]

A California man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines on social media has died after a month-long battle with the virus.Stephen Harmon, a member of the...

Minority files motion for probe into Covid-19 vaccine procurement

Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has disclosed that his side has filed a motion for a bipartisan...

4 local pharmaceutical companies ready to undertake local packaging of Covid-19 vaccines

At least four local pharmaceutical manufacturers are ready to provide the Ghanaian market with Covid-19 vaccines.This is according to the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana...

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to be available in Ghana by August

Ghana is expected to receive its first batch of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines in August.This follows the approval by Ghana’s Food and Drugs...
Joe Biden meets African-American woman

Get a shot and have a beer – Biden woos Americans to get COVID-19...

This Bud's for you, and anyone else ready to roll up their sleeve to put the pandemic behind them.The White House's new partnership with...

First man in world to get Covid-19 vaccine dies

The first man in the world to be given the Covid-19 vaccine has died.Tributes have been paid to 81-year-old William Shakespeare who hit global...
AstraZeneca

Malawi burns thousands of expired AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses

Health authorities in Malawi have incinerated 19,610 expired doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, saying it will reassure the public that any vaccines they...

Don’t take COVID-19 vaccine – Winners Chapel members warned

Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, has warned members of his church against taking the COVID-19 vaccine.Oyedepo claimed the vaccines are...
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Ghana takes delivery of 350,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines

Ghana has today, May 7, taken delivery of 350,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in an effort to get its vaccination programme back on...

77 prison inmates given Covid-19 vaccine overdose

Dozens of inmates at an Iowa prison were sickened this week after the prison’s nurses inadvertently administered overdoses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, an...

Pastor who flaunted tattoo during Covid-19 vaccine jab breaks silence [Photo]

The founder of the Oracle of God Ministries, Reverend Lucy Natasha who recently came under fire for flaunting her tattoo on social media as...

Second dose of Covid-19 vaccine extended

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says Ghanaians who have taken their first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines should not be worried if they...