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NMS Lists Covid-19 Vaccination Centres in Nairobi The first shots of the Covid-19 vaccines being administered in Kenya on March 5, 2021. Twitter Nairobi Metropolitan Services director of Health services Dr. Josephine Kibaru-Mbae has listed 16 hospitals in Nairobi where citizens can get Covid-19 vaccination. This comes hours after the Acting Health director-general Dr. Patrick Omoth was vaccinated today at Kenyatta National Hospital becoming the first person in Kenya to get it. Kibaru said tha...

The Kenya Catholic Doctors Association through its Chairperson had issued an advisory warning Kenyans against participating in the vaccination exercise, alleging that all the Covid-19 vaccines are experimental

MPs also want the government to invest in alternative (herbal) medicine to complement conventional ones in dealing with Covid-19. Healthcare workers, security personnel, teachers, persons aged 50 and above, as well as those with underlying conditions are among those who have been prioritised for the 1.02 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine that arrived in Kenya on Tuesday night. Kenya has been allocated 4.1 million doses under the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) facility. Su...

Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda Start Vaccine Rollout

Dr Amoth, referred to as recipient 001, received the jab at the Kenyatta National Hospital on Friday.  Healthworkers in line at the KNH before getting the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19 on Friday. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] Addressing the press after his shot, Dr Amoth said heaviness in the arm or a slight headache are some of the mild side effects of the jab. The second person to be vaccinated was KNH chief executive Dr Evanson Kamuri, who was followed by a nurse at the hospital. Also...

While the jab is a literal shot in the arm in the fight against the Covid-19, Kagwe said it should not mean that Kenyans should lower their guard. An officer stands guard as the first batch of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines arrives in the country. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] “We have been fighting the virus with rubber bullets. These vaccines are equal to acquiring bazookas, or machine guns,” he said. He acknowledged hesitancy to take the jab – even among healthcare workers who fall under the fi...

Kagwe Takes Action Over Tanzanias Rising Covid-19 Deaths Kenyas Health CS Mutahi Kagwe (left) and Tanzanias President John Pombe Magufuli (right) File Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has heightened security measures at entry points and also sent Covid-19 related items to counties located along the border after the number of deaths in neighbouring Tanzania increased.  Speaking to Kenyans.co.ke on Saturday, February 20, Kagwe said that they had enhanced port health surveillance, increased testing capacit...

Health & Science - By Mercy Kahenda | February 12th 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300 Kenyans might have to wait for about a year to get the much-awaited Covid-19 vaccine. According to a draft Ministry of Health vaccination rollout plan, the first group will be vaccinated in the third quarter of the next financial year, that is from January 2022. According to the report that is yet to be made public, the ministry will take “all hands on deck approach” to vaccinate as many people as possible. But...

2021-02-10 16:05:42 GMT2021-02-11 00:05:42(Beijing Time) Xinhua English Video Player Close NAIROBI, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Kenya has reactivated COVID-19 surveillance systems at the countrys main ports of entry to help detect highly contagious strains that have been reported in several African countries. The Ministry of Health officials said that border counties were on high alert as the threat of a mutated version of coronavirus spreading in the country grew significantly. Patrick Amoth, a...

104 Covid cases reported amid fears of new variants HEALTH & SCIENCE Today, some 104 persons have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Health Ministry announced that it had tested 3,348 samples in the last 24 hours, pushing cumulative tests to 1,220,043. The country’s total confirmed cases are now 102, 048. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said that seventy-seven of the new cases are Kenyans while twenty-seven are foreigners. Similarly, 66 are men and 38 women. Kenya has also report...