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Kenya's number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday rose by 573 to 168,108 following the analysis of 5,798 samples for the disease within a day. /Xinhua
Kenya's number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday rose by 573 to 168,108 following the analysis of 5,798 samples for the disease within a day.
This resulted in a positivity rate of 9.9 percent, the Health ministry said in a statement, adding the country had conducted at least 1,777,034 tests.
Of the new patients, 535 were Kenyans and 38 foreigners, 365 male and 208 female, the youngest 42 days old and the oldest 100 years.
Kisumu County led with 103 new cases and was followed by Nairobi with 61, Kitui 57, Kericho 43, Mombasa 39, Kisii 28, Busia 24, Nandi 23, Siaya and Kakamega 22 each, Uasin Gishu 18, Nyeri 17, Nakuru 16, Turkana 15, Bungoma 12, Nyamira nine, and Migori, Murang'a, Kiambu Kilifi eight each.
The country's health minister Mutahi Kagwe said Kenya,s death toll rose by six to 3,049 while the number of recoveries was 114,452.
He said one of the deaths was new while five were confirmed after facility records were audited.
He further announced that 58 more patients had recovered, 19 of them at home and 39 at health facilities countrywide.
He also said that 1,075 patients had been hospitalised by Saturday, 119 of them in intensive care units (ICU). Of those in ICU, 21 were on ventilator support, 71 on supplemental oxygen and 27 under observation.
(With input from Kenya's Health Ministry)
