Kenya petitions UN over Covid jabs hoarding



Business Daily | by Brian Ngugi


Kenya has petitioned the UN Security Council to urge wealthy countries not to hoard surplus Covid-19 vaccine supplies, adding its voice to calls for global production to be shared more equally.

Africa is struggling to secure sufficient vaccines to start countrywide inoculation programmes for its 1.3 billion people while richer countries have surplus doses that ran into the hundreds of millions.

Kenya through Foreign Affairs cabinet secretary Raychelle Omamo, made the plea at the UN Security Council on Wednesday, warning some nations could…

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