{"id":40634,"date":"2021-02-24T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=40634"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:23:12","slug":"ghana-to-receive-first-covid-19-vaccines-distributed-by-covax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=40634","title":{"rendered":"Ghana to receive first COVID-19 vaccines distributed by COVAX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The first COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed by the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) global sharing scheme COVAX, have on Wednesday, been dispatched to Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a joint statement by WHO<\/a> and the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF), The shipments represent the \u201cbeginning of what should be the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine are now in Ghana\u2019s capital Accra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter a year of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 80,700 Ghanaians getting infected with the virus and over 580 lost lives, the path to recovery for the people of Ghana can finally begin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The COVAX initiative has planned to deliver nearly 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed by the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) global sharing scheme COVAX, have on Wednesday, been dispatched to Ghana. According to a joint statement by WHO and the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF), The shipments represent the \u201cbeginning of what should be the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. \u201cThese 600,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGhana to receive first COVID-19 vaccines distributed by COVAX » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=40634\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=40634#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Ghana to receive first COVID-19 vaccines distributed by COVAX\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ghana to receive first COVID-19 vaccines distributed by COVAX » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=40634","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=40634#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Ghana to receive first COVID-19 vaccines distributed by COVAX"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The first COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed by the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) global sharing scheme COVAX, have on Wednesday, been dispatched to Ghana. According to a joint statement by WHO and the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF), The shipments represent the \u201cbeginning of what should be the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. \u201cThese 600,000…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40634"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}