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Kenya's Covid cases exceed 99,000 as 223 more get infected
Medics attend to a Covid-19 patient in a ward at the Kenyatta National Hospital Infectious Disease Unit, located at Mbagathi Hospital in Nairobi, on April 17, 2020.
Photo credit: Jeff Angote | Nation Media Group
What you need to know:
- Kenya confirmed its first case of the coronavirus disease on March 13, 2020 and has so far tested 1,092,144 samples for it.
- By Saturday, 686 patients had been admitted in health facilities countywide while 1,649 were being treated at home.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Kenya on Sunday increased by 223 to 99,082 following the analysis of 7,748 samples in the past 24 hours.
The Health ministry said in a statement that 127 of the new cases were recorded in Nairobi whereas Migori accounted for 19, Mombasa 10, Kiambu and Meru nine each.
