The government has issued a directive requiring all civil servants to get vaccinated against the Covid-19 or else face disciplinary action.

This comes after National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) reported that there was quite a low turnout at the Covid-19 vaccination centres, especially by teachers, personnel in the security sector and the civil service as a whole.

The committee said it had observed that some public servants were intentionally avoiding to get the jab to create a need for them to work from home hence adversely affecting service delivery to the Kenyan public.

The government says it has decided to prioritize all civil servants in the ongoing mass vaccination exercise and warned that any civil servant who will not have received the first dose of the vaccine by August 23, 2021 risks facing disciplinary action.

Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua ordered principal secretaries and accounting officers to ensure full implementation of the directive that will essentially see civil servants join the priority groups for the first intake of the Covid-19 vaccine.

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So far, 1,804,375 vaccines have been administered across Kenya with 1,105,470 having received the first jabs and 689,905 the second.

Only 2.6 per cent of Kenyan adults have been fully vaccinated, 55 per cent of them being male and 45 per cent female.

President Uhuru Kenyatta announced last month that the government plans to vaccinate 10 million adults by December and targets 26 million adults in Kenya by mid-2022.

He also revealed that the government’s extensive roadmap to tame the pandemic in Kenya once and for all for the country to return to normalcy.