Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday cautioned Kenyans including the media against peddling false information regarding the country’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, reiterating that frontline healthcare workers will be given first priority.

"Our policy is and it has been clearly stated that we will start with frontline workers." said Kenyatta at a flagging off ceremony ahead of the national distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines.

"We met as Cabinet and made it very clear that the first persons to be administered with this vaccine shall be our frontline health workers. That is category number one.

"They (health workers) will be followed by our category number 2, who will be our security forces, who also due to the nature of their work are equally frontline workers," he added.

Kenya received its first batch of the jabs earlier this week head of the commencement of the vaccination drive which is set to kick off on Friday.

Kenyatta took the opportunity also to urge Kenyans to continue adhering to the laid down health guidelines aimed at curbing further spread of the virus.

"I want to tell Kenyans that this disease is still in our midst. The vaccines do not mean that we are through. We must continue to protect ourselves. Put on masks, wash hands, sanitize and keep social distance," he said.

By Thursday, Kenya had reported 107,329 COVID-19 infections with 1,870 deaths.

The East African country is one of nine African states that have reported more than 100,000 cases.