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Covid-19: Kenya records highest 24-hour death toll as 1,216 more test positive

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. [File, Standard]

Covid-19 pandemic is continuing to pose a serious challenge in the country after 26 people succumbed to the disease in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health has revealed in a statement.

 This is the highest daily death toll in a day, and it comes just hours after the country posted another double-digit fatality on Tuesday when 24 people died.

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