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There's no policy that makes vaccination of Kenyans mandatory

A health care worker prepare a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The government aims to vaccinate 10 million people by December 2021, and 26 million by the end of 2022.

In a momentous leap towards this ambition, it announced in August that all civil servants were to receive a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine or face disciplinary action. The grounds for this decision lie in the low uptake of the vaccine. 

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