Nairobi Tops in the Nationwide Covid-19 Vaccination Drive

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Nairobi County is leading with 14.2 percent of its population fully vaccinated against Covid-19, followed by Nyeri and Kiambu.

According to the Ministry of Health Lamu, Turkana, Mandera, Wajir Garissa, Tana River and Marsabit Counties have the least vaccinated persons with less than 1 percent of their population fully vaccinated.

4,500,179 Covid-19 vaccine doses have so far been administered across the country.

Of these, 3,291,192 were partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated were 1,208,987.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received the first dose is at 35.2 percent.

The proportion of adults fully vaccinated is at 4.4 percent.

This comes even as the targets to vaccinate 5.8 Million people by Mashujaa Day, 20th of October 2021.

The government is also planning to vaccinate 27 Million people by June 2022.

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