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Seasoned Journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has advised the Government of Ghana to not only look for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines from countries that sell them at exorbitant prices.

Coronavirus has since last year become the bane of the world, particularly Ghana.

The disease has claimed over 500 lives and infected thousands of people in the country.

According to data by the Ghana Health Service, the country's active cases currently stand at 7,850.

Wearing nose/face masks, washing hands and using hand sanitizers regularly and social distancing among other health protocols have become the new normal life for countries affected by the disease.

However, what sounds good is the development of vaccines to cure the disease.

Vaccines have been developed by some foreign countries and Ghana will soon be one of the beneficiaries as the nation will in March 2021 receive her first batch of the vaccines.

This notwithstanding, there are heated arguments about the pricing of the vaccines as they are said to be very expensive.

Touching on how expensive the vaccines are, Kwesi Pratt noted that some third world countries are also developing the vaccines at affordable prices and so asked the President to look at this alternative.

He made mention of Cuba as one of the countries producing the vaccines at cheap prices.

He disclosed this on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" programme stressing, "third world countries are also developing vaccines. The vaccines that the third world countries are developing, they're the cheapest in the world . . . Cuba is developing two or three vaccines which will end up as the cheapest in the world".

According to him, although Cuba's vaccines are cheap, it is one of the effective vaccines to treat the viral disease.

"It has more than 90 percent reliability and so on," he said.