COVID-19 Vaccine

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Russias sputnik among banned vaccines in Kenya
BUSINESS

COVID-19 Vaccines Import Ban Takes Away a Lifeline For Private Hospitals

All licenses issued to private institutions for the importation of the vaccines have thus been suspended until further notice, the Cabinet Secretary for Health Mutahi...

FEATURED STORY

AU Secures 400 Million Vaccine Doses for Member States

The direct acquisition of vaccines by the African countries through the AVATT initiative is part of the continental objective to achieve a minimum...

Covid-19 vaccines in Africa
OPINION

With Vaccine Deliveries To Accra and Abidjan, The Race For Equity Begins 

Covid-19 vaccine in Africa: Many African countries have expertise in conducting rapid and effective mass vaccination campaigns, often immunizing millions of people in a single week. In 2016, for example, 41,000...

POLITICS

Harassed President & Skeptical Kenyans as Covid-19 Vaccine Finally Arrives

Kenyans have expressed conflicted feelings toward the administering of vaccines and have relayed their concerns to governors who have in turn put the...

A vial depicting a Covid-19 vaccine. Kenya is yet to reserve doses of the frontrunner vaccines.
FEATURED STORY

Kenya Secures 11 Million Additional Covid-19 Vaccine Doses

Kenya expects to receive 11 million additional doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, bringing the total number of doses expected to 47 million.

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe flanked by other CS when he announced that Kenya had confirmed its first coronavirus case in March. The Ministry has ordered 24 million doses of the vaccine.
ECONOMY

Covid-19 Vaccine: Kenya Orders 24 Million Doses

Kenya opted for the AstraZeneca vaccine over the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as it does not require complex cold storage facilities.

Ludovic Subran Allianz Africa
FEATURED STORY

Allianz Experts See ‘Confidence Shock’ Lifting East African Economies

Allianz is confident about the short-term economic development and forecasts a strong rebound of global GDP by +4.4% for 2021.

Bill and Melinda Gates of the Gates Foundation. The foundation has donated over Ksh27 billion for the fight against Covid-19.
FEATURED STORY

Gates Foundation Donates Ksh27.8 Billion for Covid-19 Vaccination

A chunk of the funds will be channeled towards distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Margaret Keenan receives the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at the University Hospital in Coventry on December 8, 2020
FEATURED STORY

90-Year Old Woman Becomes First Person to Take Covid-19 Vaccine

She became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine outside trial conditions.