Kenya has received another 407,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the United Kingdom.
The vaccines are expected to boost the ongoing vaccination campaign that has seen 2,101,403 people receive at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The consignment was received by the Acting Director-General of health Dr. Patrick Amoth at JKIA.
"I thank the UK government, WHO, UNICEF & partners who are helping in the vaccine deployment plan. “The Ministry of Health has now received a total of 817,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine as a contribution of the British government in Kenya’s fight against Covid-19," Dr. Amoth told the press.
Dr. Amoth mentioned that the country was also expecting to receive 1.7 million doses of Moderna, 393,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine in the next few weeks, and 1.8 million doses of Pfizer vaccine in September this year.
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Acting Director-General of health Dr. Patrick Amoth at JKIA and other officials.
On his part, UK Deputy High Commissioner to Kenya, Julius Court stated, “The donation was a testament to the cordial relations between Kenya and the United Kingdom. I’m delighted that the second shipment of our total donation of 817,000 COVID-19 vaccines has arrived in Kenya.
UNICEF Kenya’s Chief of Health Dr. Yaron Wolman said, "No one is safe until everyone is safe, especially with new and more infectious variants of the virus emerging. Vaccine equity is essential to ensure that everyone at risk from Covid-19 gets vaccinated wherever they are."
The UK government had donated another 410,000 doses to Kenya on 31st July this year following President Kenyatta’s recent tour of the United Kingdom.
The latest consignment has raised the number of vaccines received in the country to 2,730,100 with at least 754,542 people having received their second doses by close of the day Tuesday. The proportion of adults fully vaccinated now stands at 2.8 percent.
