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The country received 1.02 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday last week. The 1.02 million doses are among the first batch of the 4.1million doses out of the 24 million expected doses. In Nakuru County that has recorded a positivity rate of 9.3 per cent that translates to 4, 961 infections and 102 deaths, the vaccination of frontline workers started yesterday at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital (PGH). The County Chief Nursing Officer, Virginia Njenga, said vaccination of th...

The ministry should buy space in newspaper and other media outlets to explain the criteria Cabinet used to select the first beneficiaries of the vaccines and why the targeted population was...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Africa welcomes Covax doses, warns against selfishness 5 Mar, 2021 09:32 PM 5 minutes to read Ugandas Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng (centre right) and other officials greet the countrys first consignment of Covid-19 vaccine. Photo / AP AP Urgent calls for Covid-19 vaccine fairness rang through African countries on Friday as more welcomed or rolled out doses from the global Covax initiative, but officials are acutely aware their continent needs much more. "Rich cou...

A resident receives a shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, March 5, 2021. (Xinhua/Joy Nabukewa) Kenya's health ministry starts COVID-19 vaccination campaign with frontline health workers as the first group of people to receive the vaccine. NAIROBI, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's health ministry on Friday kicked off COVID-19 vaccination campaign with frontline health workers as the first to...

In a statement on Saturday, March 6, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe disclosed that the total tests conducted so far are 1,327,999.

ABUJA/NAIROBI — Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda started inoculating frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable citizens against COVID-19 on Friday as Africa, the…

The country now has 107 729 total confirmed cases

Patrick Amoth First to Get Covid-19 Vaccine in Kenya Health Acting Director General Dr Patrick Amoth receives the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, March 5 Twitter Acting Health Director-General Dr. Patrick Amoth on Friday, March 5, became the first person in Kenya to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Amoth took AstraZeneca vaccine, at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi in the full glare of the cameras. “We will offer ourselves to be vaccinated today (Friday). Let us portray the correct mess...

'Feeling great': East Africa's biggest economy Kenya starts vaccinations

Dr Kennedy Koech of the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) was yesterday among the first Kenyans to get the Covid-19 vaccine injection. Dr Koech was in the first batch of 10 KNH staff selected for the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab from different departments of the facility, including dental, diagnostics, intensive care unit and security. When the Saturday Standard caught up with him an hour after the injection, the maxillofacial surgeon said he did not feel any of the listed side effects. The expected...