India donates 100,000 Covid vaccine doses to Kenya



Nation | by Leon Lidigu


India has donated a consignment of 100,000 doses of the Covishield Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine which arrived on Thursday at exactly 6.30pm aboard Air India flight.

The Indian government has been supplying developing countries around the world with free coronavirus vaccine doses despite concerns that this “vaccine diplomacy” will come at a cost to vulnerable citizens.

“India had promised us a donation which it is delivering today,” Dr Willis Akhwale, Kenya’s vaccine advisory taskforce chairman told the Nation by phone…

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