Kenya's coronavirus cases rise to 22,053 after 690 more test positive
A health worker writes on a sample of a specimen bottle while a resident of Eastleigh, Nairobi, waits to be tested for the coronavirus during a mass testing exercise on May 20, 2020.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe further reported that 58 more patients had been discharged from hospitals and home-based care programmes.
Of the 690 new cases, Nairobi accounted for 535, Kiambu 56, Kajiado 28, Nyeri 24, Busia nine, Machakos seven, Nakuru and Kisumu six each, and Embu and Garissa four each.
The total number of samples tested in the country since March 13, when the first case was announced, rose to 315,723.
Kenya's coronavirus cases continued to increase sharply on Sunday with the Health ministry's announcement of 690 more infections.
The new patients - 681 Kenyans and nine foreigners - were found following the testing of 5,393 samples in the last 24 hours.
