President Uhuru Kenyatta has dismissed reports claiming that scientists from the United Kingdom are considering testing a vaccine for the coronavirus in Kenya.
Kenyatta made the remarks after BBC's Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh said during an interview that a team of scientists from Oxford University were working on a coronavirus vaccine which will be tried in Kenya if they don’t get early quick results in the U.K.
"The team in Oxford have developed a successful prototype against another type of coronavirus; MERS, and they have also developed vaccines against malaria,”he said.
"If they don't get early quick results in the UK they are considering a trial in Kenya where the epidemic of coronavirus will be on the rise.”
The remarks by the BBC correspondent triggered massive reactions from Kenyans who demanded that the government addresses that matter.
In a State address on Saturday, President Kenyatta termed the remarks as absolutely false.