Kenya Receives Additional 880,320 Doses of Moderna vaccine
Kenya has received an additional 880,320 doses of the Moderna vaccine. This is the second batch of the 1.76 million doses donated to Kenya by the United States government, through the Covax facility.
Gathogo Wanjiru 
The vaccines arrived in the country on Monday morning.
"The 2nd batch of 880,320 doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Kenya this morning. A donation of the US Government through COVAX," WHO Kenya tweeted.
This comes as a boost to Kenya's fight against the Covid-19 disease, by widening its vaccine portfolio. Kenya now has 2,284, 292 doses of vaccines that are available for administering.
On Friday last week, Kenya received the first batch of single-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines.
A Lufthansa cargo plane carrying the consignment with 141,000 doses touched down at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKI) minutes before 9 pm.
The consignment was received by Health CAS Mercy Mwangangi was at the airport with other officials from the ministry, on behalf of CS Health Sen. Mutahi Kagwe.
Kenya is also expected to receive another two million doses of Pfizer vaccines, donated by the US government this month (September).
Kenyans fully vaccinated are 2.98% of the targeted population.
