The authorities launched a massive vaccination drive this month ahead of the enforcement from January 22 of a vaccine mandate for targeted groups, including government employees, health workers and students. It plans to recruit more health workers to be able to double daily inoculation from 140,000.
Ghana, one of West Africa's largest economies that runs on exports of cocoa, gold and oil, has so far vaccinated slightly more than 5% of its population of 30-million, data compiled by Reuters showed.
Its health service has recorded 131,412 infections and 1,239 deaths from Covid-19, according to the data.
Over the last two weeks, Covid-19 cases recorded at Kotoka airport accounted for about 60% of total infections in the country, the health service said on Friday.
Reuters