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Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. [File, Standard]
Kenya has registered 83 new coronavirus cases in a sample size of 3,093 over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health has revealed. This now takes the country’s caseload to 35, 103 since the first case was noted in Match 13. This is the first time the country has posted a double-digit since the early months of detecting the virus.
So far, 474, 477 people have been tested. According to the statement by Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe (pictured above), the youngest patient is a one-year-old child and the oldest is 85-year-old. Majority of those who tested positive for the virus are Kenyans, with only six of the new cases being of foreign nationals.
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