Kenya gets 130,000 jabs of AstraZeneca from DRC.
Kenya has received 130,000 more doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
The vaccines, which arrived in Nairobi on Thursday morning, came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has said it is unable to administer about 1.3 million doses before expiry on June 24.
The DRC received 1.7 million doses through Covax on March 2 but has only administered a paltry 400,000 over fears the vaccine could lead to rare blood clotting
Unicef redistributed the remaining doses to several countries including Kenya, Central African Republic, Ghana, Senegal and Togo.
Head of vaccines deployment task force Dr Willis Akhwale confirmed the doses arrived safely in Nairobi.
He said another 136,000 are remaining from Kenya’s vaccination exercise countrywide.
The total 266,000 doses wil...