No New Covid-19 Deaths as 21 People Test Positive

The Ministry of Health on Sunday, 14th November, announced 21 new Covid-19 cases, raising the country’s caseload to 254,297.

In a press statement issued in Nairobi, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said that the latest figure had been derived from 2,709 samples tested in the last 24 hours. This brings to 2,572,609 the cumulative number of Covid-19 tests. The country’s positivity rate is at 0.8 per cent.

From the cases, all are Kenyans except one foreigner; 14 males and seven females. The youngest is an 11-year-old child while the oldest is 77.

Some 12 patients have recovered from the disease, 10 from the home-based and isolation care programme, while two are from various health facilities. The total number of recoveries now stands at 247,645.

No deaths were reported. The countrywide Covid-19 death toll remains at 5,316.

There are 391 patients are currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 1,031 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

At the same time, 26 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 12 of whom are on ventilatory support and 14 on supplemental oxygen. No patient is under observation.

Another 112 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 110 of them are in the general wards while two others are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

The cases are spread in counties as follows; Nairobi seven, Uasin Gishu and Kiambu three cases each, Migori and West Pokot two cases each while Kitui, Mombasa, Nakuru and Bungoma had one case each.