No New Covid-19 Deaths Reported as 368 Test Positive

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The Ministry of Health on Thursday, 20th January announced 368 new cases of Covid-19 from a sample size of 6,003 tested in the last 24 hours. This brings to 319,379 the total number of confirmed cases in the country.

The cumulative number of samples tested to 3,170,792, the country’s positivity rate stands at 6.1 per cent.

From the cases, 340 are Kenyans while 28 are foreigners with 185 males and 183 females. The youngest is a nine-month-old infant while the oldest is 100.

Kagwe said that 823 patients have recovered from the disease, 707 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care programme while 116 are from various health facilities countrywide.The total number of recoveries now stands at 287,963.

No Covid-19 deaths were reported, therefore the cumulative fatalities remain at 5,520.

There are 865 patients currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 7,762 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care programme.

Some 46 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 44 of them on ventilatory support while two are on supplemental oxygen

Another 198 patients are on supplemental oxygen and 196 of them are in the general wards. 2 patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Vaccination: As of 19th January 2022, a total of 11,345,649 vaccines had so far been administered across the country.

Of these, 6,269,570 are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are 4,937,799. Another 104,890 are booster doses.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 59.5 per cent. The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 18.1 per cent. The government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.

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