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COVID-19: $81m worth of vaccines paid for not delivered – Auditor-General’s report
The Auditor-General has reported that $81m worth of vaccines paid for by government has not been delivered.
According to the A-G, government paid over $120m...
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...
Ghana to expand malaria vaccine implementation from December 2022
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and its development partners are set to expand the Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) to 93 other districts across...
China approves inhaled Covid vaccine
China has become the first country to approve an inhaled Covid vaccine.
Made by CanSino, it has similar ingredients to its injected vaccine, using a...
No HIV in COVID vaccines; Ghana’s spiking HIV rate nothing to do with pandemic...
A senior research fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Dr Isaac Darko Okyere, has refuted claims that HIV proteins were...
Uganda rejects compulsory adult vaccines
A proposed new law to make vaccines compulsory for all adults in the event of a mass disease outbreak has been rejected by Uganda's...
Demand of monkeypox vaccines outstrips supply
US health officials say they do not have enough monkeypox vaccines to cope with surging demand.
The US has seen more than 1,800 cases so...
E-passport Covid vaccine launched
An African Union vaccine e-passport has been introduced, which is intended to enable easier travel within and outside Africa.
The passport will be in digital...
Monkeypox vaccines outlined by the White House
The White House is planning to ship thousands of monkeypox vaccines to states as part of a growing federal campaign to halt the outbreak.
Officials...
Covid-19: Ghanaian pharmaceutical companies to distribute vaccines produced in Africa
President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced Ghana has set up a consortium for Covid-19 vaccines to be produced by German manufacturing giant, BioNTech.
This, he said...
WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond...
Smallpox vaccine is effective for monkeypox – CDD
Pharmacist and Research Fellow at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kwame Sarpong Asiedu, says the smallpox vaccine is effective against the monkeypox disease.
According...
Polio vaccine shortage hits Northern Region
There is a shortage of Oral Polio vaccines in the Northern Region.
According to reports, it has been out of stock on a national level.
This...
WAHO selects 5 firms to manufacture vaccines for ECOWAS countries
The West African Health Organisation (WAHO), an organ of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), is working with five potential vaccine manufacturers...
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...
COVID-19: 60-year-old man gets 90 vaccine shots to sell forged passes
A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine...
SONA 2022: First phase of local commercial vaccine production to start in 2024 –...
President Akufo-Addo has indicated the first phase of the local commercial vaccine production will commence in January 2024.
In view of this, a bill will...
US Army donates boxes of anti-snake vaccines, other drugs to Savannah Region
The US Army, in collaboration with the Savannah regional Queen mother's Association, has donated 130 boxes of anti-snake vaccines and other drugs to three...
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...
6 African nations to get mRNA vaccine technology
The World Health Organization has announced that six African countries will be given the revolutionary mRNA technology to set up their own vaccine production...
Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal partner Biotech to produce COVID-19, TB and Malaria vaccines
Ghana, Rwanda and Senegal are partnering with German biotechnology company, BioNTech SE, to fill, finish, and package BioNTech mRNA vaccines in Africa, as a...
Coalition for Public Health and Justice sues govt over vaccine mandate
The Coalition for Public Health and Justice has sued the government over the mandatory Covid-19 vaccination and restrictions on movement in the country.
According to...
US donates 560,000 vaccines to Ghana
The United States has shipped more than 560,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the West African nation of Ghana, the White House told...
Ghana to sign vaccine production agreement in Germany on Feb 16 – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has announced that the government will be signing an agreement in Germany towards the production of Covid-19 vaccines in Ghana.
According to him,...
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: Man ‘paralysed’ in car crash claims he can walk and talk after taking...
Dularchand Munda, 55, from India, has regained the ability to walk and talk for the first time since a car crash in 2017 after...
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: 12,780 expired vaccines destroyed in Volta Region
A total of 12,780 doses of various COVID-19 vaccines which were found to have expired in November have been destroyed by the Volta Regional...
Man allegedly gets 10 Covid vaccine shots in one day on behalf of people
A New Zealand man has allegedly got 10 Covid-19 vaccine doses injected in only one day, after being paid by other people to get...
Nana B takes on Sammy Gyamfi over his anti-vaccine campaign [Listen]
JoyNews/AdomNews · Nana Boakye takes on Sammy Gyamfi on compulsory vaccination
National Youth Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has disagreed with the...
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...
Govt allocates €20m for National Vaccine Institute
The government has set aside €20 million for the establishment of the National Vaccine Institute, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said.
The amount would be allocated...
Covid vaccines safe; it’ll not cause you to vote for NPP – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to disregard certain misinformation concerning the covid-19 vaccine.
According to him, the vaccines are safe and do not cause...
COVID-19: Large quantities of vaccines expired in Volta Region – GHS
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed that large quantities of vaccines dispatched to the Volta Region expired due to vaccination hesitancy among the...
I will rather be stuck in Ghana – Efia Odo takes a stand on...
Ghanaian actress, Andrea Owusu, popularly known as ‘Efia Odo’, has reacted to the directive by the government that seeks to make Covid-19 vaccination mandatory.
The...
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...
Sammy Gyamfi gives condition under which he’ll take covid vaccine [Listen]
JoyNews/AdomNews · Sammy Gyamfi gives conditions under which he will take covid vaccines
The Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has revealed...