Ministry of Health targets to vaccinate at least 20,000 people per day
The Ministry of Health is targeting to vaccinate at least 20,000 people per day beginning this week, a rise from just 3,000 per day during the first week.
The target is to reach 1.25 million Kenyans with the jab by June 30.
Chairman of the Task Force for Vaccines Deployment Willis Akhwale, assured Kenyans that the vaccination process is going on very well. In fact on Monday we vaccinated over 8,000, Tuesday we went above 10,000, on Wednesday we were near 9,000 by 3pm so we are definitely increasing every day.
“During the first week when the exercise began, on average we were doing 3,00 per day. The second week we have been doing 3,700, we went to 5,000 and now we are doing 10,000. Next week we are aiming at 20,000 vaccinations per week and it is all falling to our plan,” he added.
Data from the Health Ministry shows that more than 90,340 had been vaccinated by Friday.
The government has also conducted training for additional vaccinators who will be deployed to at least 622 additional healthcare facilities in the ongoing vaccination plan.
The training that was conducted over the weekend aimed to prepare for a surge in numbers of those coming to health facilities for the jab after the government expanded the priority list to include people aged 58 years and above.
The initial plan was to reach frontline workers, among them healthcare workers, teachers and those in the armed forces as they have a higher risk of contracting the virus based on the nature of their job.
With senior government officials including President Uhuru Kenyatta and Health CS Mutahi Kagwe having come out and taken the jab in public, it is expected that the move will boost confidence among Kenyans and make them come out in large numbers to take the vaccine.
