The government is set to begin an intensified campaign to enforce measures barring unvaccinated Kenyans from accessing services.
Health Cabinet Secretary, Mutahi Kagwe, stated the enforcement would be conducted simultaneously with a mass drive to vaccinate more people.
“We are aware that over the last couple of weeks, we are now seeing a continued decline in the positivity rate, hospitalisations and fatality rates because of the measures we took,” he said.
Kagwe indicated that casualties of the Covid-19 attack in the last couple of weeks have essentially been persons who have not been vaccinated.
“We don’t know where the next wave is going to come from. But what we do know for sure, is that if we fully vaccinate our people to reach about 90 per cent of the population, we will see reduced infections and fatalities,” Kagwe said.
He further noted the new campaign will be an opportunity that the country has an occurrence of vaccines waiting to be used.
“We will now go intensively to vaccinate our people in readiness for whatever else is coming,” he stated, cautioning that going forward the government doesn’t expect to follow Kenyans around to ensure that they are vaccinated.
The country has so far surpassed the 12 million mark in the nationwide vaccination exercise even as the positivity rate slowed to 2.8 per cent in the last 24 hours.
According to the Ministry of Health, as of January 31, a total of 12,451,246 vaccines have been administered across the country.
“Of these, 6,583,334 are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are 5,634,410. Another 78,066 are doses administered to those between 15 to 18 years while 155,436 are booster doses,” Kagwe pointed out in a statement.
The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.