Gov’t Claims To Have Administered Over 10million COVID-19 Vaccines

The Akufo-Addo government is claiming that it has administered a little over 10million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country.

According to statistics put out, a total of 10,015,888 doses of the vaccines have been administered as of 6th February 2022.

This does not automatically translate into more than 10million of Ghana’s 30.8million citizens being vaccinated, however, because, the government has run two vaccination rounds meaning a little over 10million vaccines have been administered to the same group of people over the course of two doses and boosters.

This means that probably only some five million Ghanaians have been vaccinated.

There have been challenges that these numbers are dubious and that the government is inflating figures. But even if these numbers were to be taken for what they are it means the number of people vaccinated are about 16.5% of the population.

There have been 157,541 infections and 1,412 COVID-related deaths since the pandemic began. This is a pale reflection of mortality and infections recorded around the world, particularly in the Western world.

Meanwhile, the Akufo-Addo government has received over Ghc15 billion from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to fight COVID-19 since Ghana first recorded its first infection in March 2019.

Earlier in April 2013, The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the disbursement of (Special Drawing Rights) SDR 738 million (about US$1 billion) to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF). The government has since leveraged this facility.

The cedi equivalent of US$1billion is a little over Ghc6billion.

Then in August 2021, Ghana received 1 billion U.S. dollars from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to boost its post-COVID-19 economic recovery, the Ministry of Finance said in a release on Friday.

The package was part of the fund’s 650-billion-dollar package approved to support the post-COVID economic recovery in IMF member states.

A total of all the monies the Akufo-Addo government has received from these institutions, therefore, adds up to some Ghc15.36billion. Despite this, the government is broke.