Kenya’s Covid-19 Cases Surpass 250,000 Mark

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Kenya on Saturday, 2nd October, confirmed 298 new Covid-19 cases tested in the last 24 hours. This brings the country’s coronavirus caseload to 250,023.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a press statement that the cases were detected in the 6,451 samples tested, raising the total to 2,569,174. The country’s positivity rate is at 4.6 per cent.

Of the new cases, 295 of them are Kenyans while three are foreigners with 158 being males and 140 females. The youngest is a three-month-old baby while the oldest is 102.

Some three patients have succumbed to the disease, taking the national death toll to 5,131.

Kagwe said 399 patients have recovered from the disease, 379 from the Home-Based and Isolation Care program while 20 are from various health facilities. The total number of recoveries now stands at 242,227.

There are 953 patients currently admitted in various health facilities, while 2,055 patients are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

At the same time, 56 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 36 of whom are on ventilatory support, 19 on supplemental oxygen and one patient under observation.

Another 315 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 306 of them in general wards and nine in High Dependency Units (HDU).

Vaccination: As of 1st October, 2021, a total of 3,860,780 vaccines had so far been administered across the country. Of these, the total first doses were 2,934,734 while the second doses were 926,0337.
The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 31.6 per cent.

Proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 3.4 per cent. The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033. A total of 2,934,743 persons have so far been vaccinated for the first dose.

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