Kenya Receives Moderna Vaccine From U.S

Kenya received another 880,320 Covid-19 Moderna Vaccines from the United States government on Monday.

The vaccines received on behalf of the government by Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Dr. Rashid Aman comes a fortnight after the country received the first batch of 880,460 doses of Moderna Vaccines.

This second batch will now complete the donations amounting to 1,760,780 from the US and so far, Kenya has received a total of 5,146,780 doses of Vaccines.

In a speech read on his behalf by CAS at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the donation will be of great help during this time that the government is carrying out a robust vaccination campaign against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Moderna is the second vaccine to be deployed in the country after the government first started administering AstraZeneca in March this year.

Last week, the country received 141,600 doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccines which were procured directly by the Kenya government from South