By Mildred Siabi-Mensah, GNA
Takoradi, July 20, GNA- Dr Gifty Amugi, the Deputy Director of the Public Health of the Western Regional Ghana Health Service has encouraged residents to fully participate in the COVID-19 Vaccination exercise.
The vaccination exercise, which began on Wednesday through to Sunday, 23, July is aimed improving the numbers to aid in the country’s attaining a herd immunity.
Dr Amugi, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency said, though the COVID disease was not a global threat, any longer, it was still a public health concern and pleaded with Ghanaians to vaccinate against the condition.
In the Western Region, she said, about 70 percent of the eligible population had received one dose of vaccine and 50 percent were fully vaccinated in the Region.
Meanwhile, the Region, needed at least 70 percent of the eligible population to receive two doses of the vaccine.
She also encouraged those who had already taken the two doses to take the booster in fortifying their walls against the condition.
