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Two months into Kenya’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout, top health official Dr Mercy Mwangangi said the country was seventh “on the leaderboard of vaccination in the world”.
But global health experts said the claim was “difficult” to make, and any ranking should be based on the percentage of the population that had been vaccinated.
By this measure, Kenya is 120th in the world for vaccination per 100 people.
Amid concerns about vaccine hesitancy in Kenya, on 4 May 2021 the government said it had administered jabs to 887,000 people, two months into its Covid-19 vaccination campaign.
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