{"id":1264190,"date":"2022-12-12T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/12\/ghs-to-embark-on-mass-covid-19-vaccination-ahead-of-xmas\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:30:20","slug":"ghs-to-embark-on-mass-covid-19-vaccination-ahead-of-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/12\/ghs-to-embark-on-mass-covid-19-vaccination-ahead-of-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"GHS to embark on mass Covid-19 vaccination ahead of Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Ghana Health Service will from Wednesday, December 14, begin vaccination of citizens who are yet to be vaccinated against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The latest vaccination drive which is expected to last for 5 days is to prevent a possible surge in cases of Covid-19 before, during and after the Christmas festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Under the theme, Protect Yourself, Protect Your Family, Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19, this edition is expected to vaccinate over 1.4 million people between 14th and 18th December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The GHS has currently administered a total of 21,179,341 vaccine doses as of November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Director General of the Ghana Health Service Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye at a media engagement called on the citizenry to disregard reports that the Pfizer vaccine to be used during the period has expired.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the vaccine has a life span of 15 months and not 12 as been speculated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current expiry for Pfizer is 15 months and not the12 months. This issue that we are administering the expired vaccine is not true,\u201d Dr Kumah Aboagye said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the GHS has also confirmed that existing Covid-19 prevention measures at the airport for visitors have been strengthened to reduce the number of cases which may enter the country.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Health Service will from Wednesday, December 14, begin vaccination of citizens who are yet to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The latest vaccination drive which is expected to last for 5 days is to prevent a possible surge in cases of Covid-19 before, during and after the Christmas festivities. Under the theme, Protect Yourself, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}