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AstraZeneca Vaccine Recipients Reveal Side Effects of Covid-19 jab As of Wednesday, March 30, 2021, over 130, 500 people had been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Kenya since the country received 1.12 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines on March 3. The AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab has been received halfheartedly in Kenya after several countries suspended its use over safety concerns. A couple of Kenyans who have since been innoculated shared their experiences, revealing some of the jab’s side eff...

1,279 Test Positive as Kagwe Outlines Emergency Measures Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe addressing the media on October 18, 2020 File Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe on Wednesday, March 17, announced that 1,279 people had tested positive for Covid-19, out of a sample size of 7,450 tested in the last 24 hours. The total confirmed positive cases now stand at 116,310 and the total tests conducted so far are 1,387,440. From the cases 1,218 are Kenyans while 61 are foreigners. 723 ar...

Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. The Kenya Catholic Doctors Association recently issued a press statement discouraging people from getting Covid-19 vaccines, calling them “unnecessary” and “unsafe”. The press release, however, was wrong on a number of points, including claims that steam and hydroxychloroquine can treat Covid-19. The document also punted population control conspiracies; AFP Fact Check has previously debunked these and other claims. The World Health Organiz...

According to international reports, a batch of shots has caused “serious cases of blood clots among vaccinated people” prompting the countries to halt it as the European Medicine Authority (EMA) launched investigations into the jab. This came as Kenya’s Health ministry assured the public that so far no adverse side effects have been reported locally. “I have not heard of any reports and we haven’t received any communication in that regard,” said Dr Patrick Amoth, the acting Health d...

3 Min Read NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya began vaccinating people on Friday against COVID-19 with AstraZeneca shots hoped to help revive the battered tourism-dependent economy of East Africa’s richest nation. A consignment of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines under the COVAX scheme against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen packed before distribution at the Kitengela cold rooms stores in Kitengela, outside Nairobi, Kenya March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi “This may mark the beginning of the en...

12 Die as CS Kagwe Announces Covid-19 Third Wave Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe addressing the media on November 26, 2020 File Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has announced that Kenya is on the third Wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as 12 people succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, pushing Kenyas cumulative fatalities to 1,898. Speaking on Wednesday, March 10, the Health CS stated that a total of 713 people tested positive for the Coronavirus out of a sample size of 5,230 tested. The tot...

Kenya on Friday began vaccinating healthcare workers against the coronavirus two days after the first consignment of one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in the country.

Patrick Amoth becomes first Kenyan to receive Covid-19 vaccine Acting Health Director-General Patrick Amoth has become the first person in Kenya to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. Amoth received the vaccine publicly at the Kenyatta National Hospital where the distribution of the vaccine was launched. KNH Chief Executive Officer Dr. Evanson Kamuri was the second person to be vaccinated, followed by a nurse at the hospital and Dr Collins Tabu (head of immunization and vaccine in the Health Ministry...

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Mar 26, 2021 A woman in Dandora area four yesterday spent the night in the cold with her four children, one of them being a form four candidate. Janet Ochieng says that she was kicked out by her landlord for having a one month rent arrears. !-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…