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58-year-olds to get jab in Phase 1 as cases rise

Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka takes his first shot of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in Nairobi on Wednesday. [Courtesy]

The Ministry of Health has included people who are 58 years and above in the ongoing Phase One Covid-19 vaccination.

Chairperson of the Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment Task force Willis Akhwale said that bracket “accounts for 60 per cent of our recorded deaths”. He urged political, religious and community leaders to take the jab and boost confidence in the overall vaccination process.

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