Takoradi, Jan. 31, GNA – The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has administered COVID-19 booster shots to 119 persons in the region.
These include healthcare workers, persons with underlying health conditions, frontline security personnel, and persons 60 years and above who have received the second dose, thus becoming fully inoculated in the last three to six months.
The GHS adopted the booster shots initiative to stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Madam Esther Samira Awudu-Issaka, the Regional Public Relations Officer of the GHS, who made this known to the Ghana News Agency, said 532,001 people, representing 36.2 per cent of the population, had taken the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination.
A total of 292,396 representing 19.9 per cent had been fully vaccinated against the disease.
The region had 80 COVID-19 active cases from four districts, made up of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Ahanta West, Amenfi Central and Tarkwa-Nsuaem municipalities, she said, and that 79 of the cases were mild with one being moderate.
As of Tuesday, January 11, the active cases stood at 330 from the previous 440, indicating a significant reduction in the number of active cases in the region.
She said vaccination for pregnant women had also started in earnest and was being patronised steadily.
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