Covid-19 Positivity Rate Rises to 6.5 PC as 149 Test Positive

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The Ministry of Health on Monday, 13th December, confirmed 149 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours. This brings the country’s caseload to 256,484.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement that the cases were detected from 2,280 samples tested, raising the total to 2,891,893. The positivity rate is at 6.5 per cent.

From the cases, 143 are Kenyans while six are foreigners with 68 being males and 81 females. The youngest is a one-year-old child while the oldest is 97.

Kagwe confirmed that 36 patients have recovered from the disease, 10 are from the home-Based Isolation and Care, while 26 are from various health facilities. This has increased to 248,551, the total number of recoveries.

The Covid-19 death toll rose to 5,349 after one more patient succumbed to the disease.

There are 175 patients currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 842 patients are under the home-based isolation and care programme.

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

Another 46 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 45 of them in general wards and one patient in High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Vaccination: As of 12th December 2021, a total of 8,189,322 vaccines had so far been administered across the country. Of these, 4,928,719 were partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated were 3,260,603.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was 57.3 per cent. The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 12 per cent.

The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.

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