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Covid-19 kills three more in Kenya as cases near 99,000

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe gives an update on the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya during a press conference at Afya House in Nairobi on November 16, 2020. 

Photo credit: Dennis Onsongo | Nation Media group

Kenya on Friday recorded 166 new Covid-19 infections after testing 7,077 samples for the disease, raising its count since the first case last March to 98,859.

In a statement, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe also announced that three more patients had died, raising the toll to 1,726.