The 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the UK government are expected to arrive at JKIA on Saturday at 1 pm. But in his tour to the UK, the President secured 817,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines during his trip to London. Through bilateral donations, Kenya expects to receive 1.7 million doses of Pfizer from the US Government, 410,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from the UK government, 235,000 doses of AstraZeneca from Greece and another 55,000 doses of AstraZeneca from Latvia. They have allocated Kenya 407,040 doses of AstraZeneca and 271,440 doses of Pfizer,” Health CS Mutahi Kagwe assured. Kenya has also procured an additional 13 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson through the AVAT-AU mechanism with the delivery of the vaccines expected to start in August.

Source: The Star July 30, 2021 13:26 UTC