The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has issued a warning ahead of the Christmas season that the country may record a new strain of COVID-19 if the proper protocols are not followed.
According to the Service, the country is expected to witness an increase in COVID-19 instances, since various places across the world have observed increases in cases owing to changes in meteorological conditions.
Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director General of the GHS, indicated the Service's readiness to suppress any rise during a media conference in Accra.
"There is also a chance for a new version much as we had over the last Christmas -the Omicron variant. So we must consider it as a risk element, and we must be vigilant to ensure that we maintain the advances gained thus far and do not revert to where we were several months ago."
He also stated that the mass vaccination effort, which was re-launched last week ahead of the holiday season, had resulted in slightly more than one million individuals receiving the vaccine.
Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye advised opinion leaders to continue pleading with their leaders to get the immunizations.
The Ghana Health Service began immunization of residents who have not to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on Wednesday, December 14.
The most recent vaccination push, which concludes today, Monday, December 19, 2022, was planned to run five days in order to prevent an increase in Covid-19 cases before, during, and after the Christmas season.
This iteration, with the subject Protect Yourself, Protect Your Family, Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19, was scheduled to vaccine about 1.4 million people between December 14th and 18th, 2023.
As of November 30, the GHS has delivered a total of 21,179,341 vaccination doses.
Existing Covid-19 preventive procedures for travelers at the airport have been reinforced in order to decrease the number of cases that may enter the nation.