Sh1.6bn three-month Covid-19 vaccination drive

The government will spend Sh1.65 billion to vaccinate almost 1.25 million Kenyans against Covid-19 in the next three months.

This will be part of the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccination drive set to start on Friday even as the government indicated that it will spend Sh34 billion in the next three years, targeting 16 million Kenyans.

Of that budget, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which is helping Kenya access the jabs through its Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access (Covax) mechanism, will provide Sh19.7 billion…