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Kenya reports 199 new Covid-19 cases as deaths hit 1,531
Members of the public wait to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus disease at St Teresa's Girls in Eastleigh, Nairobi, on May 24, 2020.
Photo credit: Evans Habil | Nation Media Group
What you need to know:
- CS Kagwe announced that five patients had succumbed to Covid-19, raising the death toll in Kenya to 1,531.
- As of Monday, 1,171 patients had been hospitalised countrywide while 1,531 were under home-based isolation and care.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Kenya increased by 199 to 88,579 on Monday after the testing of 2,416 samples in the past 24 hours.
In the daily update on the country's status, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said 177 of the new patients were Kenyans and 22 foreigners, 123 male and 76 male, the youngest aged three and the oldest 90.
