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Kenya reports record 24-hour Covid-19 cases

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe holds an assault rifle when he visited the KWS Law Enforcement Academy in Manyani, Taita Taveta County on October 16, 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Some 1,494 more people have been infected with the coronavirus, the highest single day increase in cases since the first one in the country was reported in March, data from the health ministry showed on Wednesday.

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