The ministry of health in partnership with the Nairobi Metropolitan Services, WHO, USAID and UNICEF have launched an accelerated Covid-19 vaccination campaign targeting Nairobi County.

The campaign follows an upsurge in cases with the country’s capital having consecutively reported over 65 new daily cases over the past five days.

On Thursday hours, 100 people tested positive for Covid-19 from a sample size of 1,759 tested, marking a positivity rate of 5.7 percent.

Total confirmed positive cases are now 325,170 and cumulative tests so far conducted are over 3.7 million.

According to Health PS Susan Mochache, the accelerated campaign targets to have at least 70 percent of the population in Nairobi vaccinated in the next six weeks with the region posing a threat of another pandemic wave owing to its high population density.

Currently, 48.9 percent of the population in Nairobi is fully vaccinated against a targeted population of 3 million persons.

Kenya has so far fully vaccinated 31 percent of its entire adult population.

PS Mochache also hailed Nairobi County for attaining the second-best coverage nationally at 48.8 percent of adults. In addition, at least 115,000 persons have received booster doses.

Over 18.2 million vaccines have been administered across the country. Of these, 16.4 are doses administered to the adult population (18 years and above).

The Ministry of Health is targeting to vaccinate 100 percent of the adult population and 50 percent of the teenage population aged between 15-17 years by the end of the year.

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