{"id":404644,"date":"2021-03-28T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=404644"},"modified":"2021-03-28T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T07:10:12","slug":"kenyas-troops-in-somalia-get-first-dose-of-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/kenyas-troops-in-somalia-get-first-dose-of-covid-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s troops in Somalia get first dose of covid vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">Kenyan troops in Somalia have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">This is part of the ongoing vaccination that started with senior officers at the Defence headquarters in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">It is also part of the government\u2019s efforts to ensure essential workers, including troops deployed under the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), are protected against the deadly pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) on Saturday said on its social media pages that the exercise was launched by its Director of Medical Services Major Gen (Dr) George Ng&#8217;ang&#8217;a.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">The Covid-19 vaccination exercise for Sector II was conducted at the headquarters in Dhobley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\">&#8220;This is part of the ongoing Phase 1 of the national immunisation programme in the fight against Covid-19,&#8221; said KDF in the post on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Nation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan troops in Somalia have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. This is part of the ongoing vaccination that started with senior officers at the Defence headquarters in Nairobi. It is also part of the government\u2019s efforts to ensure essential workers, including troops deployed under the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":404645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-404644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404646,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404644\/revisions\/404646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}