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The Ghana government last week started meetings with vaccine manufacturers in Ghana to see the possibility of manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines locally.
The Minister of Health designate, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu who made this known in Parliament on Friday [January 29, 2021] disclosed that the government over the past three days had been meeting with the manufacturers.
He did inform Parliament that the time for manufacturing of local vaccines was now.
“We are doing quantification of numbers and we are looking at sources of funding to be able to do what will bring us the vaccines as quickly as possible,” he assured.
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…I believe we can mitigate our losses by pushing for mass importation of the vaccines by the Nigerian government. This will help us to rapidly reopen our economy, save jobs, reduce the rates of depression, rapes, suicides, kidnappings, deaths by mismanagement of other illnesses, and avert an almost imminent outbreak of civil war.
There’s been quite some hoopla over the pictures I shared of me taking the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Dubai, where I had gone to renew my business license and visa. I shared the pictures and had no misgivings about doing so. I also do not regret this and I have absolutely no apologies to anyone for doing the right thing. Of course, trust some Nigerians, especially the self-appointed internet trolls, to seize a few of the pictures and display it as their own scoop.
This comes after ECOWAS agreed cap the cost of the COVID-19 PCR test for citizens from its member states.
The political and economic union came to this agreement during its 58th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS.
The session was held via video conference on Saturday, January 23, 2020, after which a statement was released to the effect. ECOWAS video conference
“The Authority approves the harmonised ECOWAS Protocol for cross-border movement of persons and goods during the pandemic and caps the cost of COVID-19 PCR test for travel within the region by ECOWAS nationals at a maximum of US$50,” the statement said.