Kisumu county targets to vaccinate over 4,000 health workers as it begins administering the Covid-19 vaccine in the county. Speaking during the launch of the vaccination exercise at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) on Tuesday , county health executive Boaz Nyunya said frontline workers in public, private and faith- based hospitals will be covered in the first phase. The CEC disclosed that the county targets to vaccinate 140 people each day from the 15, 000 doses Kisumu received from the Ministry of Health. The team will then move to sub county hospitals which are spread across the seven-sub counties within Kisumu. "The vaccine is very safe having been taken through clinical trials and people should not be worried, " he said.

Source: The Star March 09, 2021 14:48 UTC