Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Mercy Mwangangi also reported 311 more recoveries and 11 more deaths, raising the total number of those discharged to 7,446 and the death toll to 274.
Dr Mwangangi said 657 of the new patients were Kenyans and the rest foreigners, and that the youngest was a month old and the oldest 92.
Friday's address focused on HIV, with Dr Mwangangi saying that 96 per cent of the infected people in Kenya were under treatment.
Six hundred and sixty seven more people in Kenya have been found to have the coronavirus, following the testing of 5,075 samples in 24 hours.
This raised the total number of confirmed cases in Kenya to 16,268 and the total number of samples tested since March 13, when the country's first Covid-19 cases was confirmed, to 266,102.
