Ghana Receives World's First Doses Of Free Covax Vaccines From India

Ghana on Wednesday became the first country to receive vaccines from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute Covid inoculations for free for poorer countries.

Launched last April, Covax said it planned to ship two billion doses by year's end.

"The next phase in the fight against this disease can begin -- the ramping up of the largest immunisation campaign in history," UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore declared in a statement. ( with agency inputs )