Tag: Covid-19 updates

Covid-19 Update: 1,085 people test positive as positivity rate stands at 15.4%

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that 1,085 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. In an update to newsrooms on Tuesday, August 3, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the 1,085 were tested from a sample size of 7,067 as the positivity rate stands at 15.4%. “From the cases 1,049 […]

COVID-19 updates: Kenya reports 467 new cases, 15 deaths

With the latest daily figures, the total confirmed positive cases are now 203,680 and cumulative tests so far conducted are 2,137,572.

Covid-19 Update: 1,259 test positive as positivity rate stands at 15.6%

The Ministry of Health has said that Kenya recorded a high number of new Covid-19 infections after 1,259 people tested positive for the disease. According to MoH, the 1,259 tested positive from a sample size of 8,081 tested in the last 24 hours. The Covid-19 positivity rate, MoH announced, now stands at 15.6%. From the […]

CS Kagwe adjusts curfew hours for Lake and Western region counties

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has announced a series of health measures to combat the upsurge of Covid-19 infections in the country. While addressing the nation on Friday, July 30, Kagwe said the presidential directive on the 10 pm -to-4am nationwide curfew still stands, adding that the Lake and Western region counties will henceforth observe […]

COVID-19 Update: 1,068 test positive as positivity rate stands at 14.4%

The Ministry of Health has announced that 1,068 people have tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours. According to MoH, the 1,068 tested positive from a sample size of 7,398 bringing the total confirmed positive cases to 201,009. Cumulative tests so far conducted are 2,116,979 while the positivity rate is now 14.4%. […]

‘This wave is serious’ – ODM’s Philip Etale contracts COVID-19 a second time

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Director of Communications, Philip Etale has contracted Covid-19 for the second time. In a statement shared on his Facebook page on Monday, July 26, Etale warned his followers of the disease’s second wave. “Dear friends, I am battling a second attack of Covid-19 since Monday last week, my body was […]

COVID-19 updates: 664 more test positive, 170 in ICU

Kenya on Sunday, July 25 recorded 664 new Covid-19 cases from a sample of 5,432 raising the country’s caseload to 197,409. In a statement, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the cumulated tests conducted so far stand at 2,093,014. The country’s positivity rate has now risen to 12.2 per cent. Out of the new patients, […]