Kenya has received an additional 182,000 Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccines from the Greece Government.
It is a shot in the arm for Kenya as the country struggles to contain the surge in infection.
The vaccines which arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Friday morning were donated by the Greece Government via the COVAX facility.
This is an addition to 410,000 Astrazeneca-Oxford vaccine doses that were donated by the United Kingdom last week.
The 410,000 doses are part 817,000 vaccines the U.K pledged to donate to Kenya when President Uhuru Kenyatta visited the country on a three-day state visit.
The roll out of the national vaccination campaign is being led by the Ministry of Health, with support from World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Gavi and other partners.
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COVAX facility which is under the WHO has also allocated Kenya 407,040 doses of AstraZeneca and 271,440 doses of Pfizer.
These doses are besides the 13 million jabs of Johnson and Johnson, procured by the government through the AVAT-AU mechanism, whose delivery will start next month.
Kenya is currently prioritising second doses for health workers, teachers, other essential workers and people aged over 58.
By August 5, at least 1,571 people tested positive for the disease, from a sample size of 9,065 tested.
Kenya has reported a positivity rate of 17.3 percent with country’s total confirmed positive cases are now 208,262 & cumulative tests so far conducted are 2,166,046.
