A healthcare worker prepares a vaccine shot. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]
Kenya has administered 24,888 vaccines in the last 24 hours raising the total vaccinations across the country to 17.3 million.
So far, only 29.1 per cent of the adult population is fully vaccinated.
On Saturday, the Health Ministry said some seventeen people have tested positive for the coronavirus from 5,029 samples conducted in the last 24 hours.
There are now 323,272 total confirmed cases and 3,466,955 cumulative tests conducted so far.
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An additional twenty-one patients have recovered from the disease, “all discharged from the Home Based Isolation and care program,” Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said.
The Covid-19 death toll in the country remains 5,647.
Nineteen patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide.
One patient is in the ICU, while four are on supplemental oxygen and in the general wards.
