{"id":754481,"date":"2022-01-18T00:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T00:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/ghana-to-start-administering-covid-19-booster-shots\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T00:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T00:17:51","slug":"ghana-to-start-administering-covid-19-booster-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/ghana-to-start-administering-covid-19-booster-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana to start administering Covid-19 booster shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"465\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1642083233_743_Covid-vaccine-696x465.jpg\"   alt=\"adomonline\" title=\"Covid vaccine\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">COVID-9 vaccine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will soon start administering Covid-19 booster shots to stem the spread of the disease in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of a Covid-19 booster shot is to give people an added level of protection from Covid-19 if their existing protection has waned over time.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Director-General, GHS, told the Ghana News Agency, that the Service has developed a booster policy, which would soon be made known to the public.<\/p>\n<p>He said the policy would indicate the category of persons who qualify to receive boosters and the type to be administered.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have gone through and completed the needed processes for giving boosters and we will soon announce this. It may cover children within a particular age group, certain categories of people and that may also include pregnant women and the type of vaccines they can take,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The booster would enhance their immune system to protect them from infection, hospitalisations, and death, which is the purpose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The country, per an update by the GHS Covid-19 website as of January 10, 2022, has recorded a total of 153,514 confirmed cases, 9,020 active cases and 1,343 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"z7Owf6wQZok\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (17-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z7Owf6wQZok?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-9 vaccine The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will soon start administering Covid-19 booster shots to stem the spread of the disease in the country. The purpose of a Covid-19 booster shot is to give people an added level of protection from Covid-19 if their existing protection has waned over time. Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Director-General, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754481","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=754481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}