First vaccine doses distributed by Covax land in Ghana

Ghana became the first country to receive a shipment of coronavirus vaccine from a global effort to equitably distribute doses after a plane landed Wednesday with 600,000 AstraZeneca shots.

The rollout is a first step toward getting doses to low- and middle-income countries cut out of the global vaccine race. But the timing and the relatively modest supply — enough for just 1 percent of Ghana’s population — point to major challenges in the immunization effort…