10 Succumb to Covid-19 as 714 More Test Positive – LitKenya

Kenya on Saturday, 19th June, confirmed 714 new Covid-19 cases from samples tested in the last 24 hours. This brings the country’s Coronavirus caseload to 178,792.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a press statement that the cases were detected in the 6,939 samples tested, raising the total to 1,901,067. The country’s positivity rate is at 11.8 per cent.

Of the new cases, 705 are Kenyans while nine are foreigners with 396 being males and 318 females. The youngest is a two-month-old infant and the oldest is 94 years old.

Some 10 patients have succumbed to the disease, taking the national death toll to 3,447.

Kagwe said 285 patients have recovered, 167 from various health facilities, while 118 are from the Home-Based and Isolation Care program. The total number of recoveries now stands at 122,631.

There are 1,073 patients currently admitted in various health facilities, while 5,174 patients are under Home-Based Isolation and Care programm. 

At the same time, 94 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 25 of whom are on ventilatory support, 50 on supplemental oxygen and 19 patients are under observation.

Another 108 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 98 of them in general wards and 10 in High Dependency Units.

Vaccination:  As of today, a total of 1,181,588 vaccines have so far been administered across the country. Of these, total first doses are 994,622 while second doses are 186,966.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose is at 18.8 per cent with the majority being males at 56 per cent while females are at 44 per cent. Proportion of adults fully vaccinated is now at 0.7 per cent.

The uptake of the second dose by priority groups is as follows: health workers 51,400, aged 58 years and above 50,902, others 49,630, teachers 21,434 while security officers are at 13,600.

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