Kenya records 1,205 new Covid-19 infections and 29 deaths

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe at Afya House, Nairobi. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

1,205 people have today tested positive for the coronavirus, from a 8,158 sample size conducted in the last 24 hours.

The Covid-19 positivity rate is now 14.8 per cent, with 211, 028 confirmed cases and 2,184,276 tests conducted since the onset of the disease.

The Health Ministry, in a brief on Saturday also said some 1,242 patients have recovered from the disease, with 1,069 being from the Home Based Isolation and Care while one hundred and seventy-three are from various health facilities across the country.

The total recoveries now stand at 197, 029.

Another twenty-nine patients have succumbed to the coronavirus, all being late deaths reported after conducting facility audits from April to August.

This now pushes fatalities to 4,117.

“1,650 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 7,771 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care. One hundred and nine patients are in the ICU, forty-six of whom are on ventilator support and fifty-six on supplemental oxygen. Seven patients are under observation,” the Ministry added.

As of August 7, 2021, Kenya has administered 1,793,520 vaccines so far, and only 2.6 per cent of the adult population is fully vaccinated.