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Government to distribute 6.2 million vaccine doses amid national shortage

A team of healthcare workers vaccinating children in Ortum in West Pokot County in Kenya. [UNICEF/Translieu]

The Ministry of Health has announced plans to distribute 3.2 million doses of the polio vaccine and 3.0 million doses of the BCG vaccine to counties by 10 June and 15 June, respectively.

This is in a bid to address a nationwide vaccine shortage that has left 12 counties without stock.

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