Ah flight carrying 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Ghana's capital Accra, the W, H O and UNICEF said in a joint statement Kick starting a campaign that garni in health officials said would prioritize frontline health workers and others at high risk of infection.

Kovacs was launched in June to prevent poor countries from being pushed to the back of the queue for covert 19 vaccines.

Nevertheless, wealthier nations have since brought up billions of doses and forged ahead with mass immunization campaigns.

Kovacs wants to close a politically sensitive gap by delivering 1.8 billion free vaccines toe less developed economies with the aim of inoculating up to 20% of those countries populations.

That's not enough, however, to achieve her immunity and on Tuesday, W.

H O Director General Tedros Adhanom Gabri ASIS urged wealthier nations to share their vaccines, saying that the goal of equitable distribution was in jeopardy.

$210 million off vaccine have been administered globally, but half of those are in just two countries, according to a Reuters tally.

Ghana has suffered more than 80,000 infections and 580 deaths.

Africa's reported death toll past 100,000 last week, a fraction of those on other continents but rising fast as a second wave of infections overwhelms hospitals.

Kovacs said this month that it had allocated the first tranche of 330 million doses of vaccines for 145 countries, including several in West Africa.