Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Director-General, Ghana Health Service, says the government is putting in place measures to halt a possible third outbreak of the Coronavirus disease in the country.

Two-thirds of the African population has expressed their willingness to accept the novel COVID-19 vaccines, but the sentiment has varied across the continent.

The media has been urged to use their various medium to educate the public about the Covid -19 vaccination to clear all the doubts concerning the exercise.

India has placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, foreign ministry sources have told the BBC.

They said rising cases meant domestic demand was expected to pick up in the coming weeks, and so the doses were needed for India's own rollout.

The Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit (EHSU) of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TaMA) have announced that it is considering re-instituting its spot fines regime to sanction persons caught defecating in the open in the metropolis.

MTN’s US$25-million donation to support the African Union’s (AU’s) COVID-19 vaccination programme is on track to administer 165,000 AstraZeneca doses to health workers.

Mr. Kwame Owusu Amponsah Daniel, the Dormaa Central Municipal Disease Control Officer, Monday said that the Directorate expects to vaccinate over 80, 000 people in the Municipality against Covid 19 infections by the end of the year.

Reacting to concerns about why vaccination centres were not set up at the other five sub-Municipalities for the exercise, his response was, "It's only two cases which were recorded outside Dormaa-Ahenkro at the Danyame and Amasu sub-Municipalities. We created more vaccination teams but there were limited numbers of the Covid doses received".

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has recommended eight key activities for Ghana to implement to end tuberculosis (TB), especially among people living with HIV in the country.

The Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Health Directorate has received 2,700 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines for health professionals.

Professor Richard Adanu, a Consultant Obstetrician-Gynecologist at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, has called for inter-sectoral collaboration in the health sector for improved service delivery.