Almost three per cent of adults fully vaccinated, Ministry says

Only 2.9 per cent of Kenya's adult population is fully vaccinated so far. [File, Standard]

Barely three per cent of the country’s adult population has been fully vaccinated, Ministry of Health reports.

In the daily Covid-19 statement to the public dated August 22, signed by Health CS Mutahi Kagwe, the ministry reports only 2.9 per cent of the country’s adult population has been fully vaccinated.

This is out of a population of about 30 million adults.

“Cumulatively, 2,396,064 vaccines have so far been administered across the country as of yesterday, August 21, 2021. Of these, total first doses are 1,615,687 while second doses are 780,377,” Health CS’s statement read in part.

The Ministry adds that the uptake of the second dose was high among men (55 per cent) than in women (45 per cent).

This comes at a time when another 646 people have tested positive of Covid-19, from a sample size of 6,039 tested in the last 24 hours, at a time when the country’s positivity rate is now 10.7 per cent, Ministry of Health says.

This brings the total confirmed positive cases to 229,009 from 2, 312, 027 tests conducted so far.

This even as the Health Cabinet Secretary reports 30 more patients succumbed to the pushing the country’s total fatalities in the country to 4, 497.

“All of them (deaths reports today) are late deaths reported after facility record audits in the months of June, July and August 2021,” Kagwe’s statement read in part.

Some 255 patients have recovered from the virus: 200 from home-based care and isolation while 55 others have been discharged from various health facilities across the country. Total recoveries now stand at 212, 036.

Nairobi still has the majority of the new infections. Today, the capital has 207 new Covid-19 cases, Garissa 74, Kitui 68, Kiambu 42, Nakuru 25, Machakos 24, Kajiado 23, Mombasa 21, and the other counties had fewer than 20 new Covid-19 patients each.