The announcement came as Prime Minister Boris Johnson met the President in Britain.
These are part of the first tranche of the UK's commitment to share 100 million vaccine doses internationally by next June.
Through bilateral donations, Kenya expects to receive 1.7 million doses of Pfizer from the US Government.
Also included are 235,000 doses of AstraZeneca from Greece and another 55,000 doses of AstraZeneca from Latvia.
To attain herd immunity the country is supposed to vaccinate at least 60 per cent of the population.
The Health Ministry towards the end of May halted the issuance of the first AstraZeneca dose after experiencing challenges in the supply chain, thus restricting the available doses to giving the second dose to those who had already received the first.
Two weeks ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta said he will fight ‘day and night’ to ensure developing countries are treated equally on vaccine equity.
Uhuru said vaccine nationalism "has really shown how unequal the world is”.
"Where do we get these vaccines from, how are we able to protect our population? This is the fight that's out there,” he said.
Uhuru said this is something that really needs to be looked into.
“Nobody is going to be safe until everybody is safe. We need to come up with a way that there will be vaccine equity,” he said.
Edited by D Tarus
