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Kenya has today reported 489 new cases of Coronavirus pushing the total caseload to 161,393. The Chief Administrative Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr Rashid Aman, in a briefing said the new cases were from  4,426 tests conducted in the last 24 hours representing a positivity rate of 11 per cent. Aman said of the new cases, 449 are Kenyans and 40 foreigners with the youngest being a four-month baby and the oldest 102 years old. The CAS said although 552 patients have recovered within the same...

Eight Indian nationals working at a Kisumu fertiliser plant found to have the Indian variant of Covid-19

Forty-seven of the recovered persons had been admitted to various hospitals, while 177 were under home-based care. So far, recoveries recorded among patients in the home-based arrangement are 79,234 whereas those who had to undergo hospital treatment are 29,555. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said Kenya’s Covid-19 toll reached 2,744 on Saturday after 20 were confirmed dead in the last 24 hours. According to the CS, 188 of the current active Covid cases are admitted to various hospitals...

A total of 1,311 Covid-19 patients are currently admitted to various health facilities across the country. Another 6,650 patients are on Home Based Isolation and Care. Health CS Mutahi Kagwe on Friday said 188 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit-ICU of whom 32 are on ventilatory support, 120 on supplemental oxygen and 36 under observations. Another 137 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 130 of them in general wards and seven in the High Dependency Units-HDU. Covid 19 Time ...

Kenya Catholic Doctors Association chairman Dr Stephen Karanja (pictured), who spread misleading information on the coronavirus vaccine, has died of Covid-19. Dr Karanja passed away today at the Mater Hospital where he was admitted to the High Dependency Unit. A message seen by The Standard from his colleague Dr Wahome Ngare sent on April 20, said Karanja was admitted due to complications of Covid-19. Covid 19 Time Series   “He is not young and has underlying health problems yet he never l...

210 patients in ICU as Covid cases hit 156,000 HEALTH & SCIENCE   Mandera County ICU and HDU unit ready for patients. Governor Ali Roba announced county was targeting 335 bed spaces for Covid-19 patients.[Standard] Kenya has recorded 1,153 new Covid-19 cases raising the total number of confirmed cases to 156,318. The new cases are from a sample size of 9,316 tested in the last 24 hours with a positivity rate of 12.4 per cent. Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi on Saturday s...

210 patients in ICU as Covid cases hit 156,000 HEALTH & SCIENCE   Mandera County ICU and HDU unit ready for patients. Governor Ali Roba announced county was targeting 335 bed spaces for Covid-19 patients.[Standard] Kenya has recorded 1,153 new Covid-19 cases raising the total number of confirmed cases to 156,318. The new cases are from a sample size of 9,316 tested in the last 24 hours with a positivity rate of 12.4 per cent. Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi on Saturday s...

- Advertisement - Singapore— A second foreign worker has died in the collision between a lorry and a stationary tipper truck along the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) on Tuesday (Apr 20). He was riding in the back of the lorry, the Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC) announced on Friday (Apr 23). The first casualty from the accident was a 33-year-old migrant worker from Bangladesh, Mr Tofazzal Hossain, who died on the day of the collision. He left behind a two-year-old son, widow, ailing mother, and ...

773 new Covid-19 cases as 726 recoveries recorded by TRACY MUTINDA Health CS Mutahi Kagwe during conference on the update of coronavirus at the Ministry of Health headquarters, Afya House, on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Image: DOUGLAS OKIDDY • 754 are Kenyans while 19 are foreigners, with 450 being males and 323 being females. Kenya on Friday recorded 773 new Covid-19 cases, from a sample size of 7,036 tested in the last 24 hours, with the positivity rate standing at 11....

  Medical practitioners at work during (Covid -19) mass-testing at the Olympic Primary School, Kibra Nairobi County, on May 26, 2020. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] Kenya has today reported 155,165 cases of Coronavirus after 773 more people tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours. This is from a sample size of 7,036 that was tested in the same period translating to a positivity rate of 11.0 per cent. A statement from the health Ministry indicates that from the new cases, 754 are Kenyans...