The African country of Ghana became the first country outside India to receive COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility.
On February 23, COVAX shipped 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/ Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. These AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines were licensed to Serum Institute of India, and are known as ‘CoviShield.’
The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, formerly known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, is made from a virus (ChAdOx1), a weakened version of a common cold virus (adenovirus).
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