Prof Matilu Mwau, the Deputy Director at Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), points out that Kenya might not achieve herd immunity soon due to the low numbers of people who have been vaccinated.
“We have not even vaccinated 10 per cent of our population. Also, nobody knows how much coverage of vaccination is sufficient for you to achieve herd immunity,” he said.
He noted that to be safe, a country should ideally vaccinate 100 per cent of the population.
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So far, by April 14, 2021, Kenya had vaccinated 569,244 people with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Dr Ahmed Ogwell, the Deputy Director of Africa at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) noted that Africa needs to vaccinate about 750 million people to achieve herd immunity. “We intend to scale up vaccination rollout for April, May, June due to availability of vaccines,” said Dr Ogwell.
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April 7th 2021 at 10:26:25 GMT +0300
Kenya Airways (KQ) Skyteam aircraft lands at JKIA after the resumption of the International flights on August 1, 2020. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
Diplomatic row
Kenya should not resort to retaliation when handling UK travel ban
The United Kingdom has imposed a travel ban on Kenya, citing increased coronavirus infections. Of great concern to the British government is the presence of new variant of the virus, which originated from South Africa.
To save their citizens from the deadly variant, the UK government stopped Kenyans from accessing its territory.
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In retaliation, the Kenyan government has imposed similar conditionalities to British nationals visiting Kenya.
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NAIROBI, KENYA: World Animal Protection has raised concern about the safety of pork and poultry meat from supermarkets after a recent study found significant bacterial contamination on these products.
The study which was conducted between April and July 2020 saw a total of 187 pork samples and 206 chicken samples collected from branches of six supermarkets in six selected counties of Kenya.
The counties are Nairobi, Kisumu, Nakuru, Laikipia, Uasin Gishu and Nyeri.
The samples were analysed for bacterial growth and sensitivity to World Health Organization (WHO) recognized antibiotics at the Center for Microbiology Research in Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi.
Supermarkets selling contaminated pork and chicken, study warns
Wednesday April 07 2021
By GERALD ANDAE
Summary
New research finds the bulk of the contaminated meat on sale is under the retailers own brands compared with cuts from suppliers.
A significant portion of chicken and pork meat sold in local supermarkets is contaminated with bacteria, some of which could be harmful to humans, a new report by a UK-based World Animal Protection has revealed.
In the findings, released on Wednesday, the organisation says the bulk of the contaminated meat on sale is under the retailers own brands compared with cuts from suppliers.
Dr Victor Yamo, World Animal Protection farming campaigns manager and the lead researcher in the study, said that the presence of salmonella and shigella bacteria is worrying and efforts have to be put in place to cut on their levels.