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Kenya's Covid-19 deaths hit 1,013 as caseload nears 56,000
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe during a press conference on the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya, at Afya House in Nairobi, on October 18, 2020.
Photo credit: Dennis Onsongo | Nation Media Group
What you need to know:
- CS Kagwe announced that the death toll had increased by 17 to 1,013 andthe number of recovered patients had risen by 231 to 37,194.
- He said that of Kenya's active cases, 53 were in ICU, 31 of them on ventilatory support and 22 on supplemental oxygen.
Kenya's Covid-19 caseload rose by 685 to 55,877 on Sunday after the testing of 4,433 samples in the last 24 hours, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has reported.
CS Kagwe further announced that the death toll had increased by 17 to 1,013 in the same period and the number of recovered patients by 231 to 37,194.
