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86 patients in ICU for Covid as 479 test positive

Josphine Moraa, a nurse at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital prepares a Covid-19 vaccine to adminster to a health worker at the facility on 9/3/2021. [Sammy Omingo,Standard]

Some 479 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Kenya today from a sample size of 4,043 tested in the last 24 hours. This is a positivity rate of 11.8%, 142 more people than were reported yesterday.

According to a statement from the Health ministry, the country's caseload of positive cases now stands at 109,643 and the cumulative tests conducted so far now at 1,340,657.

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