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1,184 people test positive for Covid-19, positivity rate at 16.5 percent

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Kenya has today recorded 1,184 positive Covid-19 cases from a sample size of 7,139 pushing the national caseload to 138,077. The positivity rate is at 16.5 per cent.

In a statement on Saturday, the Ministry of Health said from the new cases, 1,146 are Kenyans while 38 are foreigners; of which 601 are males and 583 females. The youngest is a one-year-old baby while the oldest is aged 98.

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