Kenya receives the first batch of Moderna vaccines

On August 23, 2021, Kenya received a consignment of more than 880,000 (eight hundred eighty thousand) doses of Moderna vaccine against the COVID-19 virus. The vaccines were donated by the United States (U.S.) government through the COVAX facility, a worldwide initiative ensuring equal access to COVID-19 vaccines across the globe and were handed over to the Ministry of Health of Kenya at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the country’s capital of Nairobi.