Covid-19 Cases Rise to 252,628 After 129 Test Positive

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The Ministry of Health on Saturday, 23rd October, confirmed 129 new Covid-19 cases from 5,110 samples tested in the last 24 hours. This takes the country’s caseload to 252,628.

It has raised to 2,669,467 the cumulative number of samples tested since March last year. The country’s positivity rate now stands at 2.5 per cent.

In a statement issued in Nairobi, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced that from the new cases, 117 are Kenyans while 12 are foreigners with 80 being males and 49 females. The youngest is an three-year-old infant while the oldest is 82.

Kagwe said 65 patients have recovered from the disease with 49 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 16 are from various health facilities countrywide. The total number of recoveries now stands at 246,027.

The country’s Covid-19 deaths have risen to 5,255 after another six patients succumbed to the disease.

There are 521 patients currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 1,429 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

Some 30 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 13 of whom are on ventilatory support and 17 on supplemental oxygen.

Another 164 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with156 of them in the general wards while eight patients are in the High Dependency Units (HDU).

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