291 people have tested positive for the coronavirus today from a 6,501 sample size conducted in the last 24 hours.
“Two hundred and eighty-two of the new cases are Kenyans while nine are foreigners. One hundred and sixty males while one hundred and thirty-one are females. The youngest is a five-month-old baby while the oldest is 100 years,” Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement Friday.
Kenya’s positivity rate is now 4.5 per cent with 249,725 total confirmed cases and 2,562,723 tests conducted since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Three hundred and eight patients have recovered from the disease today with “208 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while one hundred have been discharged from various health facilities countrywide.”
Total recoveries now stand at 241,828.
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Five patients have succumbed to the disease, “all being late deaths reported after conducting facility record audits in the month of September,” Kagwe added.
The death toll is now 5,128.
‘A total of nine hundred and sixty-three patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 2,078 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program. Sixty-one patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), thirty-nine of whom are on ventilatory support and twenty-one on supplemental oxygen,” the CS said.
So far, a total of 3,811,136 vaccines have been administered countrywide.
Only 3.4 per cent of adults have been fully vaccinated.
