The Health Ministry has disputed claims that Kenya may have to wait longer to acquire the Covid-19 vaccines.
According to the Health CAS Dr Mercy Mwangangi, the vaccine rollout will go on as planned.
“The Covid-19 vaccination program which is still on course is divided into three phases and nothing has changed,” she said.
The CAS added that the country will still procure vaccines through the COVAX facility.
Mwangangi clarified, “We will receive 24 million doses from the facility and another 11 million doses from other sources, to vaccinate 16 million people over a period of 18 months spread over three Government fiscal years and not calendar years.”
"The deployment plan which is currently undergoing stakeholder input is aligned to the government fiscal year. Therefore, this is the third quarter of the current fiscal year which began in July last year and ends in June this year,” she added.
The first three phases of vaccination are to end in July 2022.
The Ministry confidently confirmed that they are working with other levels of government and expect a delivery before the end of this month.
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