Covid-19: Kenya Records 1,166 New Cases, 36 Deaths

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Kenya has recorded 1,166 new Covid-19 cases from 9,924 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 230,794.

This brings to 2,326,598 cumulative number of samples tested so far. The Covid-19 positivity rate stands at 11.8 per cent.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, 24th August Health CS Mutahi Kagwe announced that from the new classes 1,144 are Kenyans while 22 are foreigners with 616 being females and 550 males. The youngest is a two-month-old infant while the oldest is 108 years.

Kagwe said 1,901 patients have recovered from the disease with 202 from various health facilities countrywide while 1,699 are from Home-Based Isolation and Care.The total number of recoveries now stands at 215,374.

Some 36 more patients have succumbed to the virus, raising the death toll to 4,564.

There are 2,013 patients currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 7,677 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

At the same time, 156 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 84 of whom are on ventilatory support and 72 on supplemental oxygen. No patient is under observation.

Another 757 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 695 of them in general wards and 62 in High Dependency Units (HDU).

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