Covid-19 Cases Rise to 237,851 After 970 Test Positive

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The Ministry of Health on Thursday, 2nd September, confirmed 970 new Covid-19 cases from 7,940 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s caseload to 237,851.

This has raised to 2,388,858 the cumulative number of samples tested since March last year. The country’s positivity rate now stands at 12.2 per cent.

In a statement issued in Nairobi, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced that from the new cases, 940 are Kenyans while 30 are foreigners with 489 being males and 481 females. The youngest is an eight-month-old infant while the oldest is 97.

Some 612 patients have recovered from the disease, 502 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 110 are from various health facilities. The total number of recoveries now stands at 224,882.
Kenya’s death toll rose to 4,746, after seven more patients succumbed to the virus.

There are 1,874 patients are currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 5,379 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program. 

At the same time 143 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 98 of whom are on ventilatory support, 39 on supplemental oxygen and six patients are under observation.

Another 757 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 684 of them in general wards and 73 in High Dependency Units (HDU).

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