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Almost 90 per cent of severely ill Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the country share one thing - they are unvaccinated. - @NationAfrica

.@MOH_Kenya states that out of the more than 500 cases that were admitted, more than 400 were unvaccinated. As for the critically ill patients, almost all of them have not been vaccinated against the virus.

All the hospitals have now been advised to keep a vaccination record of patients they admit so that the government can keep tabs on the virus.

.@MOH_Kenya has set up a monitoring and evaluation team, working with epidemiologists from the University of Nairobi, who will come up with a national database of Covid-19 hospital admissions of the vaccinated, and those who are yet to receive the jab.

When we get to know the status of the patients being admitted, whether they are vaccinated or not, you will be able to tell the trend of the virus - Dr Willis Akhwale

If more vaccinated people were being admitted, then the government would get worried, since it would mean there was a new variant.

In one of the hospitals in Nairobi, four people were yesterday admitted to the ICU and all of them were unvaccinated.

Most of the patients that we are currently admitting in our ICU are unvaccinated. A good number have either not taken the jab at all or have only taken one dose - Nurse in-charge

US' CDC released a study showing that unvaccinated people are 29X more likely to be hospitalised with severe Covid-19. The study conducted between May 1 and July 25 in Los Angeles, showed that about 5% of fully vaccinated contracted the disease amid the Delta variant surge.

These data indicate that authorised vaccines protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe Covid-19, even with increased community transmission of the newly predominant Delta variant - CDC

Prof Omu Anzala, a virologist and immunologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, said vaccine hesitancy is becoming a big issue, and Kenya has to go the promotive and preventive way to have people vaccinated.

We should work towards ensuring that even if we have a surge, very few people, if not none, are knocked. This can only happen if we get vaccinated.....

...We are going to have as many waves as possible provided the virus is still here. We can only defeat this once we are fully protected. - Prof Matilu Mwau, an infectious disease researcher at @KEMRI_Kenya

Kenya has received about 9M doses of various vaccines, which have been distributed across the country. Out of these, 5.3M doses have been administered, with 3.7M Kenyans partially vaccinated, and 1.6M fully vaccinated.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose stands at 43%, with 5.7% proportion of adults fully vaccinated.

GoK is targeting to vaccinate 10M Kenyans by December, however, with the pace at which Kenyans are taking the process regardless of the availability of the vaccines, the target will still be unreachable.

The most severely sick Covid19 patients are the unvaccinated across public and private hospitals in Kenya bit.ly/3bHpCwX by @NationAfrica