The West African nation of 30 million has recorded 81,245 cases and 584 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to figures from Ghana's Health Services on Tuesday.
The authorisation for the Sinovac vaccine will be valid for one year, according to the FAD approval letter that Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul posted on his Facebook account.
As indirect evidence is compatible with protection against severe Covid-19, the situation remains to be demonstrated in ongoing clinical trials and post-implementation evaluations.
He was speaking after being administered the first dose of the vaccine along with other senior officials at the Unit Hospital in Cyberabad here on Tuesday.
AstraZeneca said it is yet to be fully determined whether the vaccine protects against severe disease caused by the highly transmissible coronavirus variant found in South Africa.
Pfizer will continue to engage with the authority and resubmit its approval request with additional information as it becomes available in the near future.
The State government is committed to make Covid vaccine available to all in Telangana but it is the Union government which is regulating the Covid vaccination drive.
Covaxin is India's totally indigenous COVID-19 vaccine developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Virology.