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291 people test positive for Covid-19, five die

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

291 people have tested positive for the coronavirus today from a 6,501 sample size conducted in the last 24 hours.

“Two hundred and eighty-two of the new cases are Kenyans while nine are foreigners. One hundred and sixty males while one hundred and thirty-one are females. The youngest is a five-month-old baby while the oldest is 100 years,” Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement Friday.

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