Shortage of rotavirus vaccines to end by July - MoH

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta administers rotavirus vaccine to a baby in Machakos County. [PSCU]

The Ministry of Health plans resume rotavirus vaccines immunizations from July after months of disruptions that hit hospitals in the country with the most affected being newborns.

The vaccine supplied by the national government through Kenya Expanded Program on Immunisation (KEPI), is administered to children at six weeks of birth, and ten weeks of life.