Kenya, Rwanda to roll out first Covax vaccines

Covax Covid-19 vaccines are loaded onto a vehicle after their arrival in Rwanda on March 3, 2021. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA | NMG

Rwanda received its first batch of 240,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax on Wednesday morning, becoming the second country in East Africa after Kenya to get the free jabs.

A consignment of some 1,020,000 vaccines arrived in Kenya on Tuesday night, a few minutes before midnight.