GHS blames expired COVID-19 vaccines on limited time frame for vaccination exercise modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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About 480 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the Northern Regional Health Directorate have gone waste due to the Directorate’s inability to exhaust its supply of vaccines at the close of the vaccination exercise on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
The vaccines were to expire on Friday, April, 16 but the Directorate decided to end the vaccination exercise as a precautionary measure on the advice of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA).
According to the Director in charge of Public Health, Hilarious Abiwu, the AstraZeneca vaccines which were produced on October 16, 2020, were expected to be used within six months, after which they were likely to lose their potency.
Ghana-Press-Review April 15, 2021 to 10:54 183 APA – Accra (Ghana) The report that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has vaccinated about 800,000 Ghanaians against COVID-19 since the rollout of the mass vaccination exercise across the country on March 2, 2021 is one of the leading stories in the Ghanaian press on Thursday.
The Graphic reports that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has vaccinated about 800,000 Ghanaians against COVID-19 since the rollout of the mass vaccination exercise across the country on March 2, 2021.
The Director General of the Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who announced this in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, said nearly all health workers, both public and private, had been vaccinated.
About 480 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the Northern Regional Health Directorate have gone waste due to the Directorate’s inability to exhaust its supply of vaccines at the close of the vaccination exercise on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
The vaccines were to expire on Friday, April, 16 but the Directorate decided to end the vaccination exercise as a precautionary measure on the advice of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA).
According to the Director in charge of Public Health, Hilarious Abiwu, the AstraZeneca vaccines which were produced on October 16, 2020, were expected to be used within six months, after which they were likely to lose their potency.
N/R: 480 doses of COVID-19 vaccine go waste modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.