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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: An Historic Moment in the Fight Against COVID Shows Why Cold Chains Are Key to Global Health and Development
Description: On February 24 the very first shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine from COVAX arrived in Ghana. COVAX is the international cooperative effort around the development and distribution safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. Ghana became the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX when 600,000 doses landed at the airport in Accra. On hand to receive these doses was an old friend of mine, Owusu Akoto. He is the founder and CEO of a Ghanian cold chain logistics company called Freezelink. It was an historic day for COVAX, a hopeful day for Ghana and an exciting moment fo...