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Over 200,000 people in Ghana have been vaccinated against the deadly Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the last six days.

As of Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 8pm, a total of 202,252 people have had their first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination.

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye made this known Monday afternoon at a press briefing at the Peduase Lodge where the Cabinet is on a 3-day retreat.

Dr Kuma-Aboagye indicated that the figure was likely to go up since there are some data entry challenges and that about a third of the number is still being entered.

He projected that the figure was likely to hit 300,000 when all the data is entered.

He said there has been enthusiasm with the vaccination so at some point, the personnel had to resort to collecting data on papers and get the people vaccinated and as the data is being entered electronically and synched, the figure was likely to shoot up.

The COVID-19 vaccination started in Ghana on March 2, 2021 using the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India.

As of close of day March 7, a total of 202, 252 persons had been vaccinated with the Greater Accra Region having the highest number of persons - 128,088 vaccinated.

Friday the 5th of March saw the highest number of persons vaccinated with 46,780.

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The proportion of persons vaccinated by sex is almost 50:50.

Ashanti has a total of 69,325 vaccinated as of Sunday night whilst the Kasoa area in the Central Region had a total of 4639 vaccinated as of Sunday night.

Below is a breakdown of Vaccinations by sex and region.