Ghana Greets Historic Vaccine Delivery With A Dose Of Skepticism
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Ghana is the first country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX program. Above: The vaccines are unloaded at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on February 24.
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In the middle of a pandemic, Mavis Owureku-Asare is optimistic.
The reason? On February 24, her homeland, Ghana, became the first low-resource country to receive free COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX. I feel very hopeful, says Owureku-Asare, a food scientist with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission and a 2020 Aspen New Voices fellow. Ghana has become a role model for other countries.
It s the first country to receive free vaccines from the COVAX program. But that shipment of 600,000 can t protect a nation of 30 million. And conspiracy theories about the vaccine are swirling.
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