On Friday last week, Kenya received the first batch of single-shot Johnson and 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 9pm.
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).
More doses of the vaccine are expected in the coming weeks as the country aims to have at least 10 million people fully vaccinated by end of the year.
As of September 4, the Ministry of Health had so far vaccinated a total of 2,862,528 people across the country, out of which are 2,050,377 are first doses, while second doses are 812,151.
Kenyans fully vaccinated are 2.98% of the targeted population.
