COVID-19: UK to give Kenya more than 800,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

The UK will give Kenya 817,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, the government has announced. Ministers said the offer would help the nation - which has a population of around 52 million - to combat the COVID pandemic, with the first 400,000 doses due to be sent this week. There have been growing concerns that supply shortages in some African countries have held back the continuing rollout of their vaccination programmes.