Kenya Covid-19 infections up by 7

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe. [Robert Menza, Standard]

Some seven people have tested positive for the coronavirus today from 4,166 samples conducted in the last 24 hours.

Kenya’s Covid-19 positivity rate is now 0.2 per cent, with 323,402 total confirmed cases and 3,511,614 cumulative tests conducted so far.

Some nine patients have also recovered from the disease, all being discharged from the Home Based Isolation and Care program, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

The total recoveries in the country are 317,633.

The Covid-19 death toll remains 5, 648.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe added that another thirteen patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, “while one hundred and eight are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.”

Kenya has administered 23,742 vaccines administered in the last 24 hours, and over 17.6 million vaccines since the start of the inoculation exercise.

At least 29.7 per cent of the adult population is fully vaccinated.