Covid: 207 new infections and three fatalities in Kenya
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe giving updates on the status of Covid-19 in the country at Afya House on December 24, 2020.
What you need to know:
- From the new cases, 190 are Kenyans while 17 are foreigners, with 130 being male and 77 female.
- The youngest case is of a five- month-old infant while the oldest is 84.
The Ministry of Health has announced 207 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours from 4,988 samples that were tested within that period.
The new infections have pushed the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 96,458 and the total number of tested samples to 1,046,667.
From the new cases, 190 are Kenyans while 17 are foreigners, with 130 being male and 77 female.
The youngest case is of a five- month-old infant while the oldest is 84.
At the same time, the death toll in the country from the pandemic now stands at 1,670 after three fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours.
Recoveries
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, on Thursday also reported 262 new recoveries, bringing the tally for national recoveries to 78,737.
From the latest recoveries, 238 are from the home-based care programme while 24 have been discharged from various hospitals across the country.
Currently, there are 662 patients admitted in various health facilities countywide while 3,024 are under home-based care.
There are 28 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 14 of whom are on ventilatory support and 13 on supplemental oxygen. One patient is under observation.
Another 22 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen out of whom 21 are in the general wards. One patient is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).
