Professor Joseph Osafo, Senior Psychologist of the University of Ghana, has appealed to Ghanaians who have received the COVID-19 vaccine dose not to throw caution to the wind.
He advised that, until a significant number of the Ghanaian population are inoculated, those who have been vaccinated are still at risk of contracting the disease.
He asked them to continue to adhere to the COVID-19 safety protocols stressing the vaccination is not a 100 percent proof of immunity against the disease.
The Government of Ghana, in March 2021, welcomed her first batch of the COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX programme.
Six hundred thousand (600,000) vaccines were acquired by the government to vaccinate frontline health workers, government officials and the media among others.
The government expects to procure forty-two (42) million more vaccines with a target of 20 million Ghanaians to be vaccinated.
Speaking on ''Kokrokoo'' on Peace FM, Prof. Joseph Osafo said; "Until we know a really significant percentage of Ghanaians have been inoculated, we have to be careful not to say we have been vaccinated, so I have thrown away caution to the wind because there are few issues in other areas where some people have received the vaccine dose and they are still having some problems. Some have even been vaccinated but have been reinfected. Even if we want to create herd immunity and about 10 people have been vaccinated and you don't, you can't say you have been vaccinated; so you won't protect yourself because you're still at risk."
"It's not 100 percent efficacious . . . So, people must understand that when you take the vaccine, keep applying yourself to all the necessary protocols," he stressed.
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