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The number of new COVID-19 infections in Kenya rose by 86 to 165,465 following the analysis of 2,789 samples for the disease in the past 24 hours on Sunday. /Xinhua
The number of new COVID-19 infections in Kenya rose by 86 to 165,465 following the analysis of 2,789 samples for the disease in the past 24 hours on Sunday.
The resultant positivity rate stood at about 3.1 percent, according to the statement from the Health ministry. The East African nation has so far carried out 1,744,393 tests as of now.
Of the new patients, 84 were Kenyans and two foreigners, 44 female and 42 male, the youngest seven months old and the oldest 96 years.
Nairobi County accounted for 27 of the cases, Uasin Gishu and Kilifi eight each, Mombasa seven, Busia, Migori, Kisii and Homa Bay four each, Kericho and Machakos three each, Laikipia and Embu two each, and Kiambu, Kisumu, Makueni, Murang'a, Nakuru, Nandi, Taita Taveta, West Pokot, Kajiado and Elgeyo Marakwet one each
As of Sunday, the CS said, Kenya's death toll had reached 3,003 while the number of recoveries was 113,612.
He said the two deaths occurred over the last one month and that 123 more patients had recovered, 65 of them at health facilities countrywide and 58 under home-based isolation and care.
CS Kagawe further said that 1,030 patients had been hospitalised by Sunday, 109 of them under intensive care units (ICU). Of those in ICU, 24 were on ventilator support, 70 on supplemental oxygen and 15 under observation.
Another 81 patients were separately on supplemental oxygen, 76 of them being in general wards and five in high dependency units (HDU).
The number of patients in the home-based care programme stood at 4,815.
(With input from agencies)
