Tag: Covid-19 in Kenya

Covid-19: 1335 new cases recorded as positivity rate stands at 17.7 per cent

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has announced 1,335 new cases of Covid-19 from 7,605 samples tested in the last 24 hours. This represents a positivity rate of 17.5 per cent, more than three times the maximum safety percentage recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). From the new cases, 1,293 are Kenyans while 42 are […]

Covid-19: 8 deaths recorded as 431 people test positive

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has announced 431 new cases of Covid-19 from a sample size of 5,281 tested in the last 24 hours. This represents a positivity rate of 8.2 per cent. The new cases bring the total number of positive cases in the country to 193,921 while the cumulative tests done in the […]

KEMRI report reveals shocking COVID-19 figures in Kenya as of June

That is the finding of a landmark study by the Kenya Medical and Research Institute (Kemri).

Nakuru topples Nairobi with highest Covid-19 cases recorded in last 24 hours

For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country, Nakuru County had the highest number of cases with 94 infections out of the 442 reported in the last 24 hours. The spike in Covid-19 cases has pushed Kenya’s total caseload to 40,620 with the death toll increasing to 755 after four more patients […]

13 more die of COVID-19 in Kenya

On a positive note, the country’s total number of recoveries reached 24,504 after 170 patients were declared healed in the last 24 hours.

Mourners exhume woman’s body for viewing at Eldoret cemetery, force away health officers while chanting ‘hakuna corona Kenya’

The woman died at her Eldoret home on Saturday, September 5, with reports suggesting her samples tested positive for COVID-19.

16 more die of COVID-19 in Kenya

Kenya registered 322 new coronavirus cases, pushing the caseload to 31,763.