No Deaths as Kenya Records 485 New Covid-19 Cases – LitKenya

The Ministry of Health has confirmed 485 new Covid-19 cases, raising the national tally to 176,622.

In a press statement issued on Wednesday, 16th June Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the cases were detected from 5,355 samples tested within the same period, raising the total to 1,881,460. The country’s positivity rate is at 9.1 per cent.

Of the cases, 467 are Kenyans while 18 are foreigners, 277 are males and 208 are females. The youngest is a one-month-old infant while the oldest is 93.

Kagwe confirmed that 312 patients have recovered from the disease, 219 from the Home-Based and Isolation Care while 93 are from various health facilities. The total number of recoveries now stand at 121,206.

No deaths were reported. The countrywide Covid-19 death toll remains at 3,428.

There are 1,076 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 4,810 patients are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

Some 102 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 29 of whom are on ventilatory support, 60 on supplemental oxygen and 13 patients are under observation.

Another 115 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 110 of them in general wards and five in High Dependency Units (HDU).

Vaccination: As of today, a total of 1,155,745 vaccines have so far been administered across the country. Of these, total first doses are 991,184 while second doses are 164,561.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose is a 16.6 per cent with the majority being females at 56.4% while males are at 43.6 per cent. Proportion of adults fully vaccinated is less than one per cent.

The uptake of the second dose by Priority Groups is as follows: health workers 46,369, others 45,353, aged 58 years and above 42,883, teachers 18,512 while security officers are at 11,444.

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