The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has hinted on when next the country will get vaccines and he mentioned August 2021.
He made this comment following the rising brouhaha about the use of middlemen to procure Sputnik-V vaccines at $19 instead of the $10 on the international market.
Speaking with Citi News, the Health Minister indicated that the earliest time the country has to receive vaccines again would be in August 2021.
“We are waiting for vaccines. The agreements I signed, if they give me an indication that tomorrow morning come to the airport and collect your vaccines, we will go. Other than that, the earlier time we have an indication to get vaccines would be in August.”
“We have factories that were preparing themselves to produce vaccines and they have sent proposals to the government’s committee on the COVID-19 response team and things are progressing. If anything at all, in the very immediate future, we may be doing finishing and packing before we develop our own, and I think we have scientists who are ready to support us,” he added.
