Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo became the first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine under the global Covax scheme. Covax, a scheme designed to ensure poorer countries do not miss out on vaccinations as worries grow that rich nations are hogging the doses, is aiming to deliver at least two billion jabs by the end of the year.
Mr Akufo-Addo (below) received his AstraZeneca shot live on television along with his wife, while in neighbouring Ivory Coast a presidential spokesman got the country's first jab, also part of a Covax delivery.
Ivory Coast received some 504,000 jabs from Covax, while Ghana got 600,000 that it will start to roll out this week. "It is important that I set the example that this vaccine is safe by being the first to have