14 Succumb to Covid-19 as Cases Hit 309,130

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Kenya on Friday, 7th January recorded 2,444 new Covid-19 cases from a sample size of 9,269 tested in the last 24 hours.

The total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 309,130 from a cumulative test of 3,085,450 conducted since March 2020. The positivity rate is now at 26.4 per cent.

In a statement to the newsrooms, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said that from the new cases 2,298 are Kenyans while 146 are foreigners with 1,122 being male and 1,322 females. The youngest is a three-month-old infant while the oldest is 110 years.

Some 1,066 patients have recovered from the disease, 1,016 from the Home-Based Care Program, while 50 have been discharged from various hospitals. The total number of recoveries now stands at 262,133.

Unfortunately, 14 patients have succumbed to the disease pushing the cumulative fatalities to 5,425.

There 1,208 patients currently admitted in various health facilities across the country while another 26,324 are on Home Based Isolation and Care.

At the same time, 46 patients are in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 25 are on ventilatory support, and 20 on supplemental oxygen with one patient under observation.

Another 331 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen with 303 of them being admitted in the general wards while 28 patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Vaccination: As of 6th January a total of 10,473,483 vaccines had so far been administered across the country. Of these, 5,996,874 are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are 4,412,786.

Another 23,703 are doses administered to those between 15 to 18 years while 40,120 are booster doses. The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 56.5 per cent. The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 16.2 per cent.

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