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Kenya records 271 news Covid-19 cases, 51 recoveries

Health CAS Rashid Aman speaking at Trans Nzoia County Referral Hospital in Kitale on October 8, 2020.

Photo credit: Jared Nyataya | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • Dr Aman said that 51 more patients have recovered from the disease.
  • Death toll from the disease has risen to 751 following the deaths of three more patients.
  • CAS Aman urged Kenyans not to lower their guard in the fight against Covid-19.

Kenya’s Covid-19 caseload has risen to 40,178 after 271 news cases were recorded over the past 24 hours from 5,034 samples which were tested.

Of these new cases, 242 are Kenyans while 29 are foreigners.