(Photos) Health workers vaccination continues countrywide

Today marks five days since the government commenced vaccination against Covid-19 in the country.

Health care workers were given priority in the phased process which began on Friday last week.

The Ministry of Health targets the 400,000 medics countrywide as well as other essential service providers in phase one of the vaccination plan.

The Covid-19 vaccines have been dispatched to the nine regional centres as the government plans to reach at least 1.25 million Kenyans in the next 116 days.

The 1.02 million doses of vaccines, which arrived in the country on Tuesday night, were flagged off from the national store in Kitengela by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The ministry has said the existing cold chain capacity will be extended to the health facility level to enable them to handle Covid-19 vaccines alongside existing childhood vaccines.

According to the Health ministry, the government has scaled up coverage of immunisation services from 50 per cent to more than 90 per cent of the health facilities in the country through procurement and installation of specialised vaccine storage equipment in at least 5,000 health facilities.