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Government to start distributing Covid-19 jabs

Head of national vaccines and immunizations programme Dr Collins Tabu supervises the offloading of the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines at the Kitengela cold rooms store on March 3, 2021. [Elvis Ogina,Standard]

Kitengela Depot, which is the main storage facility of vaccines in the country will be a beehive of activity in the coming weeks as the government distributes the Oxford-Astra Covid-19 jabs.

It is here where the 1.02 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines were immediately transported for storage after arrival on Tuesday night at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi.

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