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Medic is first Kenyan to get virus jab in US

Dr Stella Ogake.

On Monday, as the United States began the long-awaited rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to frontline healthcare workers across states, a Kenyan-born and trained doctor made history as one of the first recipients of the vaccine.

Dr Stella Ogake, received the vaccine at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Centre in Colombus, Ohio, the same facility where she works as a pulmonologist and professor.

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