EA vaccine rollout goes on amid adverse reactions across Europe

Covid-19 vaccine.

A Kenyan health worker administers the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to colleagues to help fight coronavirus at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi on March 5, 2021. PHOTO | FILE

The rollout of the vaccination programme against Covid-19 in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda continues apace amid clotting concerns elsewhere.

The World Health Organisation confirmed on March 15 that several European countries had suspended the rollout of the AstraZeneca jab — the same one in Kenya and Rwanda — as a precaution after reports emerged that it had caused clotting in some recipients.