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Kenya to get more Covid jab doses amid AstraZeneca safety fears

Covid-19 vaccine

A nurse administers the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Kakamega. The Ministry of Health has revealed that Kenya expects to receive a second batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses.

Photo credit: Isaac Wale | Nation Media Group

The Ministry of Health has revealed that Kenya expects to receive a second batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses despite the jab being suspended wholly or in part in at least seven European countries and in DRC Congo over safety concerns.

This comes after Denmark, Norway, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Luxembourg linked blood clots in some recipients to the vaccine.