Those discharged from the home-based care programme are 155 while 21 were in various hospitals.
Kenya s total recoveries now stand at 75,735. Currently there are 831 patients admitted in various health facilities countrywide and 5,834 on Home-Based Isolation and Care, said a statement from Health CS Mutahi Kagwe.
Meanwhile, the government will spend Sh10 billion to purchase 12 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
It, therefore, means the country will be buying the vaccine for sh833 per dose.
The Ministry of Health has revealed that the 12 million doses will be an addition to the 24 million others of the vaccine the country expects in the first quarter of 2021.
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which US, Singapore and Canada have ordered has a price tag of Sh2,000 per dose followed by Moderna’s which costs between sh1,500 and sh1,700 a dose. AstraZeneca goes for about sh400 to sh600 a dose.
Therefore, the government’s plan to purchase 12 million doses from a budgetary allocation of sh10 billion means each dose will cost sh833.
Amoth said the AstraZeneca vaccine is also suitable for the country’s cold chain logistics as it can be stored under temperatures of between two and eight degrees Celsius.
“The other two vaccines require a unique cold chain system that most countries do not have,” said Amoth referring to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.