Kenya records 366 new virus cases, 18 deaths

Nairobi has 177 cases, Nakuru 19, Machakos 11, Kiambu 23, Kajiado 42, Uasin Gishu 24, Kitui 19, Kilifi 20, and Mombasa 12.

By TOO JARED

When you have to live on medical oxygen all your life

The family cannot afford the cost of seeing a pulmonologist and is now stuck with the oxygen cylinder

By KENNEDY GACHUHI

It's impossible to contract Covid from steel, says study

The findings show that the new variants of the coronavirus do not survive for more than three hours on stainless steel surfaces.

By GRAHAM KAJILWA

21 more Kenyans die of Covid-19 raising death toll to 2,330

According to CS Kagwe, five of the deaths occurred in the last month, while 16 are late death reports from facility record audits

By TOO JARED

Doctors, clinical officers and lab technicians most receptive to jab

Doctors led by 76 per cent, followed by clinical officers at 72 per cent, lab technicians at 68 per cent while nurses came last at 64 per cent.

By MERCY KAHENDA

Ten counties lagging behind in Covid-19 vaccine uptake

The government last week confirmed that more than 800,000 doses had been dispatched for vaccination countrywide.

By GLORIA MILIMU

Pandemic: Kenyan women didn’t want more children

Emergency contraception, condoms, pills, injections, and implants use shot up during lockdowns and curfews.

By SAADA HASSAN

More women with Covid-19, as 110-year-old tests positive

Kenya has recorded 13 deaths over the last 24 hours, all of which are late death reports from facility record audits that occurred on diverse dates.

By TOO JARED

Not every patient needs a ventilator, life support machine

Losing a patient is something you are prepared to handle from medical school, but it doesn’t make it easy- Prof Wangari Siika

By BELDEEN WALIAULA

747 people test positive for Covid-19

Positivity rate of 14.5 percent recorded as 747 infections confirmed from 5,145 samples in last 24 hrs pushing caseload to 120,910

By TOO JARED

Grieving nurse warns Kenyans ‘virus no joke’

Lillyan Mutinda spent months sensitising wananchi on measures put in place to curb the spread of coronavirus only to lose her mother to the disease.

By NZAU MUSAU

Baby infected with coronavirus in the womb

The mother made a quick recovery from her Covid infection and was discharged four days after delivery, but the baby needed neonatal care

By THE CONVERSATION