Health Acting Director-General Patrick Amoth was the first Kenyan to be given the Covid-19 shot on March 5, 2021.
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Kenya on Friday began vaccinating high-priority healthcare workers against coronavirus, as initial consignments of the long-awaited drugs began to be rolled out in East Africa.
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The government targets to vaccinate 1.25 million Kenyans against the virus by June.
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Kenya will first vaccinate some 400,000 health workers before moving to other priority workers like the police and teachers in a first phase estimated to last until June.
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Kenya has received just over one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, under the UN-led Covax initiative which is assisting poorer countries to receive the medicine.
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From July to June 2022 the country will focus on those at high risk of death or disease, and then a final phase running until July 2023 will target the rest of the country.
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Intensive care staff and final-year medical students working in hospitals will also be vaccinated.
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