Kenya on Tuesday recorded 521 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the country’s case load to 89,100, Health CAS Mercy Mwangangi has said.
The CAS in a press briefing at Afya House confirmed that this was from a sample size of 4,721 recording a positivity rate of 11 per cent.
The country’s fatalities have risen to 1,545 after another 14 patients succumbed to the disease.
Mwangangi said that there are 1,102 patients currently admitted in various hospitals across the country. Another, 8,016 patients are on the home-based care programme.
A total of 71 patients are in ICU, out of which 31 are on ventilatory support.
Also, 66 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen, out of which 58 are in general wards and eight in the HDU.
Meanwhile, 425 patients have recovered from the disease out of which 330 were from the Homebased care program while 95 were discharged from various health facilities.
Kenya’s recoveries now stand at 69,839.
From the new cases reported on Tuesday, 504 are Kenyans while 17 are foreigners.
In terms of gender, 315 are males while 206 are females and the youngest in a three-year-old child and the oldest is 90 .
Nairobi leads with 191,, Kilifi 93, Kiambu 32, Nakuru 19 Nyeri 14, Kericho 9, Kisumu 6 and Nandi 3.