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Kenya: Covid-19 - State Orders Vaccines for All Civil Servants
Nation, 10 August 2021
The government has ordered all civil servants to be vaccinated in two weeks or risk disciplinary action after only a few voluntarily went for the jab against Covid-19. Read more »
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Kenya: Public Servants Must Be Vaccinated By August 23 or Face Disciplinary Action - Govt
Capital FM, 10 August 2021
It is now mandatory for public servants in Kenya to get the COVID-19 jab. Read more »
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Kenya: Covid-19 Positivity Rate Rises to 14.5% With 1,183 New Cases
Nation, 10 August 2021
The number of Covid-19 infections in Kenya have increased to 213,756 after 1,183 people tested positive for the disease from a sample size of 8,144 tested in the last 24 hours. Read more »
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Kenya: Saccos Tweak Operations Over Covid-19 Strain
Nation, 10 August 2021
The Covid 19 scourge has greatly affected financial transactions in co-operative societies as monthly contributions continue to dive leading to the need for variation of loan… Read more »
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Kenya: State Told to Expand Schools Amid Worry Over Congestion
Nation, 9 August 2021
Education stakeholders have warned that the country is courting disaster with the congestion in secondary schools that has been worsening every year following failure by the… Read more »
Ultimatum Given To Kenyan Civil Servants On Covid-19 Jab
The government has ordered all civil servants to be vaccinated in two weeks or risk disciplinary action after only a few voluntarily went for the Covid-19 jab.
Only 2% of Kenyans have been fully vaccinated so far. Almost 2 million Kenyans had received the first dose of the vaccine as of August 9, 2021. Of this number, about 600,000 civil servants have shown up for their second doses. Kenya has a target of vaccinating 26 million people by the end of 2022.
More than half of the teachers who received the first dose have not gone for their second jab - a worrying trend amid a variant that affects children, whom they interact with on a daily basis, writes Angela Oketch for The Nation.
Coupled with this challenge, is that of secondary school overcrowding. Education stakeholders have warned that the country is courting disaster with the congestion caused by the lack of upgrades in scool infrastructure.
As of August 11, 2021 Kenya has recorded 213,756 Covid-19 cases with 198,786 recoveries and 4,211 fatalities.
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