PHOTO; Dr. Sylvester Wheh, County Health Officer
By King Brown, sarwahking@gmail.com
BUCHANAN, Liberia -Some 2,065 persons have been vaccinated against the Coronavirus disease in the southern Grand Bassa County, local health authorities say.
They were given the Astrazeneca vaccine.
So far, five persons reportedly have died from COVID-19 and 28 others tested positive in the area for Coronavirus in Buchanan and its environs.
The local Health official stressed that, although the vaccines have finished, citizens should exercise patience as they await the arrival of new consignment of vaccines which is expected to arrive in the country by the end of July this year.
Making the disclosure this week www.newspublictrust.com, the County Health Officer Dr. Sylvester Wheh said out of the 2,065 persons that took the doses of Covid-19 vaccines in Grand Bassa, about 1,413 of them were community dwellers and 652 were frontline health care workers.
According to him, some of those that were vaccinated received their first and second, and have completed their doses of vaccines and others took only their first dose when the country ran out of the preventive vaccines.
He noted, those vaccinated took the jab from April 19 to July 2021.
Dr. Wheh mentioned though, there are widespread misinformation around the used of Covid-19 vaccines, but encouraged citizens to turned out in their numbers to take it and help build their human system to fight against the deadly virus.
He said the Health Team has activated their response efforts to halt further spread of the disease, adding that there one of the best ways fight the Coronavirus is to take the vaccine, in order to prevent the further spread of the pandemic in Grand Bassa County.
Liberia months ago received 96,000 doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine for distribution to the country’s 15 counties under the Covax international arrangement coordinated by the UN World Health Organization (WHO)..