75,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine were imported to Kenya and only 527 of those had been administered at the time the government announced the private importation ban of Covid-19 vaccines.
This is according to the Health Ministry in response to the Senate Standing Committee on Health on reasons that led to the ban.
In a detailed report seen by Standard Digital, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe (pictured) said the government arrived at the decision after it was made aware of the irregular deployment of the vaccine, which it says could have reversed the gains made in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic by way of introducing counterfeit vaccines in the market.