Kenya Records 234 Covid-19 Cases as 9 More Patients Succumb

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The Ministry of Health has confirmed 234 new Covid-19 cases from the 3,737 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s caseload to 246,530.

This raised to 2,498,049, the cumulative number of samples tested since March last year. The country’s positivity rate stands at 6.3 per cent.

In a statement issued in Nairobi on Sunday, 19th September Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced that from the new cases, 231 are Kenyans while 3 are foreigners with 118 being males while 116 are females. The youngest is a four-year-old child while the oldest is 97.

Kagwe said a total of 492 patients have recovered from the disease with 452 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 40 from various health facilities countrywide. The total number of recoveries now stands at 237,295.

Kenya’s death toll rose to 4,989, after nine more patients succumbed to the virus.

There are 1,433 patients are currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 3,246 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

Some 109 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 77 of whom are on ventilatory support 25 on supplemental oxygen and seven patients are under observation.

Another 505 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 470 of them in general wards and 35 in High Dependency Units (HDU).

The cases are distributed in counties as follows; Nairobi 49, Kitui 48, Makueni 19, Turkana 14, Nakuru 12, Kiambu and Uasin Gishu 11 cases, Kajiado 10, Murang’a nine, Garissa and Mombasa eight cases each, Meru four, Nyandarua and Kakamega three cases each, Laikipia, Machakos, Marsabit, Bungoma, Elgeyo Marakwet, Nyeri, Tharaka Nithi and Wajir two cases each while Baringo, Kisii, Nandi, Kisumu, Kericho, Kwale, Embu, Homa Bay and Isiolo had one case each.

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