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Some 1,437 more people have tested positive for the coronavirus today, from a 10,764 sample size conducted in the last 24 hours.
In a brief on Friday, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe (pictured) said that the country’s positivity rate is now 13.4 per cent.
Kenya’s total confirmed Covid-19 cases are now 218,713 and at least 2,239,082 tests have been conducted since the onset of the disease.
CS Kagwe added that another 1,056 patients have recovered from the disease. “Nine hundred and sixty-three were discharged from the Home-based Isolation and Care program while ninety-three are from various hospitals across the country,” he said.
Total recoveries now stand at 201, 054.
Twenty-nine patients have also succumbed to the disease, all being late deaths reported after conducting facility records audits from April to August.
The Covid-19 death toll now stands at 4,302.
“1,938 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 9,528 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program. 136 patients are in the ICU, 62 of whom are on ventilatory support and 67 on supplemental oxygen, and seven patients are under observation,” Kagwe added.
Kenya has so far administered only 1,970,174 vaccines, and only 2.7 per cent of the adult population is fully vaccinated as of August 12, 2021.
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