DRC to Donate 150,000 AstraZeneca Doses to Kenya before June Expiry
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has urged people who received their first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine to remain patient assuring them that they will receive their second dose.
Gathogo Wanjiru 
CS Kagwe was speaking to an interview with CNN on Thursday that the government’s first batch of vaccines was on the point of running out, and that close to one million Kenyans had been vaccinated.
“It is a fact that doses the government had acquired to be administered for Phase One are now on the verge of running out as close to one million Kenyans had so far been vaccinated,” CS Kagwe said.
“We are still vaccinating, but what I can tell you is that we are at the tip, and we need more vaccines like yesterday.”
According to CS Kagwe, there’s no need to be concerned because the first dose provides up to 70% protection against the disease.
“Those who have received the first dose should not panic as having the first dose in itself according to medical experts offered protection of up to 70 percent,” CS Kagwe told CNN. “You are better off with a first dose than none at all. We have not heard from anywhere of people dying because they did not get the second dose.”
From the total of 1.12 million doses acquired in March, there are approximately 100,000 doses left in the country.
The country is now expecting 150,000 doses from their neighboring countries such as the DRC, where there is no capacity to administer the vaccine doses before they expire in June this year, according to the Health Ministry Cabinet Secretary.
