{"id":12526,"date":"2021-12-19T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt"},"modified":"2021-12-19T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T14:07:46","slug":"get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt","title":{"rendered":"Get E.I For Mandatory Vaccination \u2013 Kpebu To Gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>A private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has asked the government to get an Executive Instrument (E.I) to back the mandatory vaccination exercise in the country. Mr Kpebu expressed shock that the government commenced enforcement of the mandatory vaccination when there was no E.I to support the directive. \u201cI am surprised that the government is not putting in place the EI. It doesn\u2019t take much to put out such an EI,\u201d he said on the Key Points on TV3\/3FM Saturday, December 18. As part of measures to control the spread of the coronavirus in the country, the government through the Ghana Health Service (GHS) introduced a number of measures at the Kotoka International Airport. Among the measures, \u201cAirlines who board passengers without proof of payment for the COVID-19 test and would\/ could not pay for the test in Ghana will be fined US$3500 per passenger.\u201d Also, \u201cnon-Ghanaian passengers may be refused entry and be returned to the point of embarkation at a cost to the Airline.&#8221; The month of December has been declared by the GHS had as the vaccination month. Addressing a press conference in Accra on Sunday, November 28, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kumah-Aboagye said vaccination was the surest way to deal with the virus. He further assured that the authorities are going to scale up surveillance measures at the Kotoka International Airport during the Christmas season to ensure that Covid infections do not increase. He further said that the mistakes that were made in December last year which occasioned the escalation of infections in January this year, will not be repeated. There is going to be \u201cstrict enforcement of the protocols at the KIA. We are going to increase surveillance. We are expecting an increased number of people to arrive in the country&#8221;. \u201cWe are going to ensure that our logistics are prepared, we will continue our surveillance to be able to look at that, we are going to look at isolation centers,\u201d he said. He added, \u201cOur contact tracing will be strengthened&#8221;. \u201cWe are going to engage with religious organizations to ensure that activities done in Christmas are in accordance with Covid protocols.\u201d Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsia Asare, allayed fears of persons who are worried about the potential reaction from taking the covid vaccine. He stated that it is normal to experience headaches, body pains and other reactions. These are indications that the vaccine is functioning properly in the body, he said. \u201cIf you are vaccinated and you feel slight headache it means the vaccine is working very well,\u201d he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, December 4 with Dzifa Bampoh. Dr Nsia Asare further urged all persons who are yet to receive their vaccines to do so in order to save their lives and the lives of others. In his view, Ghana cannot afford to go through the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic hence the government, through the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has taken the vaccination exercise a step higher in order to get as many as possible inoculated. Vaccination centers, he stated, are being created closed to the people in the communities including market areas to make it easier for them to go through the exercise. \u201cWe cannot afford a fourth wave,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cwe can all do this together if you are vaccinated,\u201d he said. The GHS) this week issued new guidelines to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in Ghana ahead of the Christmas season. The guidelines include measures to vaccinate as many as possible before Christmas on December 25. In a press release issued on Thursday, December 9, the GHS said \u201cAll persons, 18 years and above arriving in Ghana will be required to provide evidence of full vaccination for Covid-19 vaccines. \u201cAll unvaccinated Ghanaians and residents of Ghana who are currently outside the country and intend to return within 14 days from the midnight of 12 December 2021 are exempted. However, they would be vaccinated on arrival at the airport.\u201d It added, \u201call Ghanaians traveling out of the country are to be fully vaccinated effectively 12th midnight 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. A private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has asked the government to get an Executive Instrument (E.I) to back the mandatory vaccination exercise in the country. Mr Kpebu expressed shock that the government commenced enforcement of the mandatory vaccination when there was no E.I to support the directive. \u201cI am surprised that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[5092,5096,429,6145,5217],"class_list":["post-12526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana","tag-mandatory","tag-vaccination"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Get E.I For Mandatory Vaccination \u2013 Kpebu To Gov\u2019t - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has asked the government to get an Executive Instrument (E.I) to back the ma ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Get E.I For Mandatory Vaccination \u2013 Kpebu To Gov\u2019t\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has asked the government to get an Executive Instrument (E.I) to back the ma ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-19T13:26:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-19T14:07:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2021\/12\/img-61bf3c9a5990a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"378\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Get E.I For Mandatory Vaccination \u2013 Kpebu To Gov\u2019t\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-19T13:26:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-19T14:07:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt\"},\"wordCount\":706,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2021\/12\/img-61bf3c9a5990a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\",\"mandatory\",\"Vaccination\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/get-e-i-for-mandatory-vaccination-kpebu-to-govt\",\"name\":\"Get E.I For Mandatory Vaccination \u2013 Kpebu To Gov\u2019t - 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