Kenya’s COVID-19 cases hit 25,837 – KBC

Cabinet Secretary for Health has announced 699 more COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking the countrywide tally to 25,837.

The Health CS was in Kakamega to inspect the County’s preparedness to combat the virus.

The new cases were detected from 7,175 samples that the Health Ministry took for testing.

Out of the 699, 675 were Kenyans while 24 were foreign nationals.

In terms of gender, 427 are males while 272 are female.

In terms of age, the youngest was a one-year-old while the oldest was 85 years.

At the same time, 781 patients were discharged having fully recovered from COVID-19 raising the total number of recoveries to 11, 899.

From the recoveries, 125 were from health facilities while 656 from the Ministries home-based care program.

The country has lost five patients from the disease bring the total number of casualties to 418.

CS Kagwe noted that no casualty has been reported from the home-based care since the program was launched over a month ago.

“We have not lost a single person in the home-based care program. The facilities at home and atmosphere may work better for people rather than in hospitals,” he said.

On his part, Kakamega Governor said that his County had no approved testing laboratory and appealed to the Health CS to make Kakamega a testing centre.

“We have no approved testing laboratory. The County is using the KEMRI lab for doing tests. We are unable to access the re-agents because that’s the Government’s responsibility,” he said.

“Our testing capacity is very low. We have managed to test 629 samples. Out of which 596 tested negative while 33 turned positive,” said Governor Oparanya.

Since the virus entered the country, two have succumbed to COVID-19 in Kakamega County.

The County boss urged residents to visit the health facilities within the County for treatment of other diseases.