By the end of 2020, COVID-19 had claimed the lives of more than three million people worldwide, representing 1.2 million more deaths than officially reported earlier, says a newly released report by the World Health Organization (WHO).
However, 10 people died of Covid-19 under the same period, pushing the national fatalities to 3,097.
There are 1,103 patients currently admitted in hospitals countrywide, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement to newsrooms on Wednesday. As of today, 960,379 have so far been vaccinated, CS Kagwe said.
Meanwhile, Reuters has reported that official death tolls from the Covid-19 pandemic are likely to be a significant undercount , the World Health Organization said on Friday, estimating that the true figure of direct and indirect deaths could be two to three times higher.
Presenting its annual World Health Statistics report, the WHO estimated that total deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 were at least 3 million or 1.2 million more than 1.8 million figure officially reported.