Two Succumb to Covid-19 as 75 More Test Positive

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The Ministry of Health has announced 75 new Covid-19 cases, raising the country’s caseload to 255,544.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, 7th December, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the latest figure was derived from the 4,771 samples tested in the last 24 hours.

This brings to 2,863,425 the cumulative number of Covid-19 tests. The country’s positivity rate now stands at 1.6 per cent.

Of the new cases, 60 are Kenyans while 15 are foreigners with 50 being male while 25 are females. The youngest is a 13-year-old while the oldest is 79.

A total of eight patients have recovered from the disease, five from the Home-Based Care Program, while three are from various health facilities countrywide. The total number of recoveries now stands at 248,452.

Sadly, two patients have succumbed to the virus pushing the number of fatalities to 5,337.

Currently, there are 207 patients admitted in various health facilities across the country while another 844 are on Home Based Isolation and Care.

Some two patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), two of whom are on ventilatory support.

Another 52 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen with 50 of them being admitted in the general wards. Two patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

Vaccination: As of 6th December 2021, a total of 7,678,464 vaccines had so far been administered across the country. Of these, 4,676,556 were partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated were 3,001,908.

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 57.2 per cent.  The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 11 per cent.

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