Kenya is providing free COVID-19 vaccines to all diplomats based there including thousands of United Nations staff. Kenya health workers and other front-line employees, as well elderly citizens, have not yet been completely vaccinated. It is making local medics angry. According to sources, the offer was made on March 18 through a letter sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The letter was sent to diplomatic missions.
The vaccines were given through the World Health Organization (WHO) co-led COVAX vaccine access scheme, according to Macharia Kamau, the foreign ministry’s principal secretary. COVID-19 has killed nearly 2,000 people in Kenya, according to estimates. Kenya is dealing with a third wave of the Covid virus, with the health ministry reporting 28 deaths in one day, the highest daily toll since the outbreak started.
Data source: Al Jazeera
