{"id":401967,"date":"2021-02-25T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T04:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401967"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T04:51:04","slug":"ghana-first-country-to-get-covid-vaccines-through-covax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ghana-first-country-to-get-covid-vaccines-through-covax\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana first country to get Covid vaccines through Covax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana became the first country to receive Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization-backed Covax program, which aims to provide at least 2 billion doses to lower-income countries.<\/p>\n<p>The West African nation took delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Plc vaccines in the capital, Accra, the WHO and the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo, 76, will take the first shot on March 2 to build trust in the vaccine\u2019s efficacy, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said by phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana became the first country to receive Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization-backed Covax program, which aims to provide at least 2 billion doses to lower-income countries. The West African nation took delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Plc vaccines in the capital, Accra, the WHO and the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund said in a statement Wednesday. President Nana Akufo-Addo, 76, will take the first shot on March 2 to build trust in the vaccine\u2019s efficacy, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said by phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}