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Kenya to get 2.5m Covid jab doses by April amid AstraZeneca safety fears

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Nation | by Leon Lidigu


The Ministry of Health has revealed that Kenya expects to receive a second batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses despite the jab being suspended wholly or in part in at least seven European countries and in DRC Congo over safety concerns.

This comes after Denmark, Norway, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Luxembourg linked blood clots in some recipients to the vaccine.

The Kenyan consignment  will be delivered by Gavi-Covax, the Vaccine Alliance, an organisation appointed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to oversee…

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