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Health CS Mutahi Kagwe says 11 patients are in the ICU all of them on ventilatory support. [File, Standard]
Kenya has recorded 46 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, from a sample of 2,324 raising the country's caseload to 321,381.
In a statement on Monday, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the new infections take the country’s positivity rate to 2.0 per cent and cumulated tests conducted so far to 3,222,886.
Out of the new patients, 23 are female, whereas 23 are male, with the youngest carrier being a three-year-old child and the oldest aged 91.
Of the new cases, six are foreigners while the rest are Kenyans.
Distribution
In terms of counties distribution, Nairobi County recorded 33 cases, Nakuru 22, Nyeri, Siaya and Nyandarua 2 cases each, Uasin Gishu, Bomet, Kajiado, Kirinyaga, Mombasa and Meru 1 case each.
Kenya’s Covid-19 death toll has risen to 5,583 after three deaths were reported from the virus in the last 24 hours.
Total recoveries now stand at 294,722 after 107 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours 93 from the Home-Based and Isolation care programme and 14 from various health facilities in the country.
Of the total recoveries, 242,272 are from the Home Based Isolation Care programme while 52,450 are from various hospitals countrywide.
Admitted
A total of 438 patients are currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 4,602 patients are on Home Based Isolation and Care.
Eleven (11) patients are in the ICU all of them are on ventilatory support. No patient is under observation.
Another 92 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen 90 of them in the general wards, while two patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).
Vaccinated
In terms of vaccination, Kenya has so far administered 12,252,574 Covid-19 vaccines across the country according to the Ministry of Health latest records.
Of these, 6,521,728 have been partially vaccinated while 5,520,712 have been fully vaccinated.
Another 61,437 doses have been administered to those between 15 and 18 years while 148,697 are booster doses.
The uptake of the second dose among those who received the first dose is at 63.0 per cent while the proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 20.3 per cent as the government works towards vaccinating 27, 246,033.
He said the ministry is conducting a two-week mass vaccination across the 47 counties from January 28 to get many people vaccinated
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