Over 900 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines risk expiration as census enumerators refuse to take 2nd jabs

Authorities of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Ashanti region have sent a desperate call to individuals who worked as enumerators in the just ended Population and Housing Census to avail themselves for the second jabs of the AstraZeneca vaccine as they race against time to keep the doses from expiring.

He wondered whether the resistance to the calls to get fully vaccinated was the enumerators’ own way of protesting for payment for the work done in the population and housing census.

Meanwhile, the 6-day vaccination program for the Johnson & Johnson vaccines ended in the Ashanti region yesterday; many were however left in long queues while the 50,400 doses received for use in four districts run out.