Covid-19 Cases Soar to 319,838 as 459 Test Positive

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The Ministry of Health has announced 459 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The national tally now stands at 319,838.

The cases were from the 6,193 samples tested. This brings to 3,176, 985 the cumulative number of samples tested. The country’s positivity rate is at 7.4 per cent.

In a statement issued on Friday, 21st January Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced that from the new cases, 428 are Kenyans while 31 are foreigners. Some 243 are females while 216 are males. The youngest is a two-month-old infant while the oldest is 110.

Some 461 patients have recovered from the disease, 414 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 47 are from various health facilities countrywide. The total number of recoveries now stands at 288,424.

Eight patients have succumbed to disease, all of them being late deaths reported after conducting facility audit records in January. This now pushes the cumulative fatalities to 5,528.

There are 827 patients are currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 7,396 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

At the same time, 46 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 44 of them on ventilatory support while two are on supplemental oxygen.

Another 198 patients are on supplemental oxygen, 196 of them are in the general wards and two patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Vaccination: As of 20th January 2022, a total of 11,437,774 vaccines had so far been administered across the country.

Of these, 6,290,257 are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are 5,003,730. Another 109,450 are booster doses.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 60.1 per cent. The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 18.4 per cent. The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.

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