A private company that imported the Sputnik V vaccine to Kenya is seeking to re-export it back to Russia.
This comes a week after the health ministry banned the importation, distribution and administration of Covid-19 vaccines by private entities.
Dominic Kariuki, the deputy director of the countryâs drug authority, says the firm has written to them seeking to re-export the vaccine.
âThe company is now in the process of officially applying. The letter of intent has already been given to the pharmacy and poisons board,â Mr Kariuki told members of the Kenya senateâs health committee.
Chief Administrative Secretary of Health Rashid Aman said those who had received the first dose of the vaccine would still get their second dose after three weeks.