Covid-19 Caseload Rises to 320,918 as 152 Test Positive

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The Ministry of Health has announced 152 new Covid-19 cases from 5,666 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s caseload to 320,918.

This has increased to the cumulative number of samples tested in the country so far. The country’s positivity rate stands at 2.8 per cent.

From the cases new cases 131 are Kenyans, 21 foreigners while 87 are males and 65 are females. The youngest is a one-year-old child while the oldest is 97 years.

According to the Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, 430 patients recovered from the disease, 348 are from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 82 are from various health facilities countrywide. The total number of recoveries now stands at 293,017..

There are 569 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 5,178 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

Some 21 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), all of them are on ventilatory support.

Another 141 patients are on supplemental oxygen and 140 of them are in the general wards. One patient is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Vaccination: As of 26th January 26th 2022, a total of 11,784,132 vaccines had so far been administered across the country. Of these, 6,376,995 are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are 5,241,059.

Another 38,929 are doses administered to those between 15 to 18 years while 127,149 are booster doses.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose stands at 62.1 per cent. The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 19.2 per cent.

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