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Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe addresses a press conference during the opening of a high dependency maternity and new born unit at the Othaya-KNH hospital annex in Nyeri County on May 7, 2021. 

| Joseph Kanyi | Nation Media Group

Do Health ministry figures on Covid-19 really add up?

What you need to know:

  • Questions raised on veracity of database as discrepancies are recorded.
  • Source says a new team at the tallying centre could be making mistakes.

Inconsistencies in the Covid-19 numbers reported this past month have raised questions on veracity of the database at the Ministry of Health.

Nation Newsplex, the data journalism desk of the Nation, has noted huge discrepancies in the number of cases recorded, especially over the past few weeks.