Kenya Receives 1.02 Million Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine
Over 1 million doses of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine part of 24 million doses country expects to receive within months.
Kenya received over one million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine through the global COVAX facility early Wednesday.
The local office of the World Health Organization (WHO) made the announcement on Twitter, saying the 1.02 million doses had arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport onboard a Qatar Airways flight.
According to the Ministry of Health, the first beneficiaries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will include frontline workers such as health care professionals, teachers and security personnel.
As of Tuesday, 345 people were diagnosed with the coronavirus out of a sample size of 5,550 tested in 24 hours. The total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 106,470.