Top official gets it wrong: Kenya nowhere near seventh in world for Covid-19 vaccination
Chief administrative secretary Mercy Mwangangi cut an elated figure when she compared Kenya’s vaccination progress to other countries. But the data gives a different picture.
Published on 10 May 2021
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Dr Mercy Mwangangi, chief administrative secretary at Kenya’s health ministry (April 2021)
Two months into Kenya’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout, top health official Dr Mercy Mwangangi said the country was seventh “on the leaderboard of vaccination in the world”.
But global health experts said the claim was “difficult” to make, and any ranking should be based on the percentage of the population that had been vaccinated.
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