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Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Ranking Member - Parliament Select Committee on Health

Minority MPs make strong demand to govt over Sputnik vaccine

The Minority in Parliament is demanding an abrogation of contract with UAE-based Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum for the supply of Sputnik vaccines from...

New twist to Ghana’s Sputnik V vaccines purchase

Government has amended the price at which it is buying Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines from supplier, S. L. Global Limited. In an amended agreement sighted...

Revealed: Govt to purchase Sputnik V vaccine at $26 per dose

More controversies keep coming up regarding government’s procurement of Russia’s Sputnik V for Covid-19 vaccination in the country. In a document sighted by Myjoyonline.com, the...

Ghana’s Sputnik V vaccine middleman an ex-convict; wanted for fraud – Norwegian newspaper alleges

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ghana’s Sputnik V vaccine middleman an ex-convict; wanted for fraud It has emerged that one of Ghana’s intermediaries negotiating for the procurement of...
Minister for Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu

Govt justifies purchase of Sputnik V vaccines

Government says it rather successfully negotiated downwards the price of the Sputnik V vaccine from a higher price to 19$. A statement issued by the...

Health Ministry to respond to allegations of over-priced Sputnik vaccine

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has revealed it will in due course respond to allegations surrounding the purchase of Sputnik vaccines into the country....

US ‘to buy 500 million Covid vaccine doses for world’

US President Joe Biden’s administration will provide 500 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to about 100 countries over the next two years,...

COVID-19: Most MPs yet to get second vaccine jab

JoyNews/AdomNews · COVID-19: Most MP yet to get second vaccine jab It has emerged that most Members of Parliament (MPs) have not taken their second...
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The coronavirus surges across Africa as vaccine programs flounders

A sudden, sharp rise in coronavirus cases in many parts of Africa could amount to a continental third wave, the World Health Organization warned...
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...

COVID-19: Father of 5 dies after refusing vaccine

A Michigan family is mourning the loss of their beloved patriarch who passed from COVID-19 after refusing the vaccine. Antwone Rivers, 39, and his wife,...

COVID-19: Ghana to be selected as manufacturing hub for vaccines in Africa

The European Commission (EU) has named Ghana as one of its possible manufacturing hubs of Covid-19 vaccines in Africa. “At the meeting with the Vice...
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...

COVID-19: 2nd dose of vaccines to be deployed from May 19 – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has announced that, effective Wednesday, May 19, 2021, the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines will be deployed. He made the announcement during the...

No alternative to vaccine passports, says Dubai airport boss

The boss of the world’s busiest airport for international passengers has said Covid passports are the only way to restart mass foreign travel. Dubai Airports...

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...

WHO approves Chinese Covid vaccine

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted emergency approval for the Covid vaccine made by Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm. It is the first vaccine developed...
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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...
AstraZeneca

Ghana to receive 350,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine

Ghana is expected to take delivery of 350,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX facility today, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. President Nana Akufo-Addo made...

Kenya’s anti-vaccine doctor dies of Covid-19

A prominent Kenyan doctor who became an anti-vaccine campaigner and conspiracy theorist has died from the disease.Dr Stephen Karanja said it was unnecessary to...

Kenya’s anti-vaccine doctor dies of Covid

A prominent Kenyan doctor who became an anti-vaccine campaigner and conspiracy theorist has died from the disease. Dr Stephen Karanja said it was unnecessary to...
AstraZeneca

More than 1.3m expiring vaccines in DRC to be re-distributed to Ghana, 5 others

More than 1.3 million AstraZeneca vaccines delivered to the Democratic Republic of Congo on March 4, 2021, are to be re-distributed to Ghana and...

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...
AstraZeneca

EU sues AstraZeneca after delays in vaccine deliveries

The European Union said Monday it had launched legal action against the British-Swedish drug company AstraZeneca after it repeatedly under-delivered on its shipments of Covid-19 vaccines...

COVID-19: How are the vaccines faring in ‘dumsor’ – Omane Boamah asks

Former Communications Minister, Dr Edward Omane Boamah is concerned about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines in the wake of the erratic supply of...

COVID-19: Pfizer confirms fake versions of vaccine

US pharmaceutical company Pfizer says it has identified counterfeit versions of its coronavirus vaccine in Mexico and Poland. The doses were seized by authorities in...
AstraZeneca

COVID-19: Over 500 vaccines expire

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has discarded over 500 expired Covid-19 vaccines in the Northern and Oti Regions as of last Friday. This...

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...

COVID-19 vaccine: We are not guinea pigs – Winners Chapel founder fumes

Bishop David Oyedepo has shared his thoughts about the COVID-19 vaccination which is currently ongoing in the country.  The Founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide (aka...

Covid-19: About 2,000 vaccines in Northern Region to expire on Friday

The Northern Region is reeling from a setback on the fight against the novel coronavirus. Thousands of Covid-19 jabs deployed to the region as part...

U.S. halts use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine over blood clot concerns

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration are recommending that the United States of America pauses the use...

AU to procure vaccines from US’ Johnson & Johnson

In the context of supply issues, the African Union (AU) has abandoned plans to procure coronavirus vaccines from the Serum Institute in India and...

Prostitutes go on strike over Covid vaccines

Sex workers in a Brazilian city have gone on strike for a week, demanding to be included in the group of front-line workers receiving...
AstraZeneca

Govt secures 3.4 million more Covid-19 vaccines

Government has secured 3.4 million doses of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine as part of efforts to secure the lives of the citizenry against...

Covid-19: 4 accused of stealing vaccines granted bail

Four persons accused of stealing and selling vials of COVIDSHIELD have been granted ¢80,000 bail each by an Accra Circuit Court. They are: 37-year-old Disease...

Second phase of Covid-19 vaccine rollout to commence on this date…

The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Aboagye, says the first badge of Ghanaians who have been vaccinated will receive the...

What to know about drinking alcohol before or after covid-19 vaccine

Drinking alcohol before or after the coronavirus vaccine could be harmful to the body. This is according to Public Health practitioner, Cindy Ofori Appiah. Speaking...

Pastor Chris slams pastors who are endorsing Covid-19 vaccine [Video]

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, the Founder and President of LoveWorld Incorporated, also known as Christ Embassy, has slammed pastors who are advocating for Covid-19 vaccines....