Kenya to provide Covid-19 vaccine jab free of charge

Covid-19 vaccine.

A medical health worker fills a syringe with the Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services center in Tel Aviv on December 21, 2020. PHOTO | AFP

Kenyans will receive the Covid-19 vaccine free of charge when it becomes available, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has said.  

Mr Kagwe, in an interview on Wednesday, said the Covid-19 jab will be incorporated into the country’s national immunisation programme vaccines that are offered for free to all citizens.