Covid-19: 1,759 Patients Recover as 2,336 Test Positive

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The Ministry of Health on Thursday, 6th January confirmed 3,297 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours. This brings the country’s caseload to 306,686.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement issued in Nairobi that the cases were detected from 10,558 samples tested, raising the total to 3,076,181. The country’s positivity rate stands at 22.1 per cent.

From the new cases, 2,029 are Kenyans while 307 are foreigners with 1,153 being males and 1,183 females. The youngest is a two-month-old infant while the oldest is 104.

Kagwe said 1,759 patients have recovered, 1,699 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care programme while 60 are from various health facilities. The total number of recoveries now stands at 261,067.

Some seven patients have succumbed to the disease, all of them being late deaths reported after conducting facility record audits in the month of January 2022. This now pushes the cumulative fatalities to 5,411.

There are 1,176 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities, while 25,024 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care programme. 

At the same time 44 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 23 of them on ventilatory support while 20 are on supplemental oxygen. One patient is under observation.

Another 317 patients are on supplemental oxygen and 280 of them are in the general wards while 37 patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Vaccination: As of 5th January 2022, a total of 10,356,914 vaccines have been administered across the country. 5,956,101 are partially vaccinated and 4,347,094 fully vaccinated.

Another 23,147 doses have been administered to those between 15 to 18 years and 30,572 are booster doses.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 56.2 per cent. The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 16 per cent. The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.

The top 10 counties are; Nairobi with 34.8 per cent of the population fully vaccinated followed by Nyeri 32.3 per cent, Laikipia 25.8 per cent, Kiambu 23 per cent, Kakamega 20.4 per cent, Taita Taveta 18.8 per cent, Murang’a and Uasin Gishu at 18.3 per cent respectively, Machakos 17.5 per cent whilr Kirinyaga and Nyandarua are at 17.5 per cent.

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