{"id":25676,"date":"2021-08-10T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=25676"},"modified":"2021-08-10T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:58:23","slug":"kenya-orders-mandatory-covid-jabs-for-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/10\/kenya-orders-mandatory-covid-jabs-for-civil-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Orders Mandatory Covid Jabs For Civil Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenyan civil servants have been given 13 days to be vaccinated against Covid or face unspecified disciplinary measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, the head of public service said the order was as a result of the low uptake of Covid-19 vaccines among public servants, especially teachers and those in the security sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some public servants had deliberately avoided getting vaccinated in order to stay away from work, a trend that was affecting the delivery of services, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Kenya reported 745 new coronavirus cases raising the number of confirmed cases to 212,573 since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, the government said it had administered more than 1.7 million AstraZeneca vaccines, most of them being first doses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its target is to vaccinate 10 million people by end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan civil servants have been given 13 days to be vaccinated against Covid or face unspecified disciplinary measures. In a statement, the head of public service said the order was as a result of the low uptake of Covid-19 vaccines among public servants, especially teachers and those in the security sector. Some public servants had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":25678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31,6597],"class_list":["post-25676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured","tag-kenyan-civil-servants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25679,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676\/revisions\/25679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}