Tag: Ministry of Health

Covid-19 Update: 531 test positive as positivity rate stands at 6.5%

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has confirmed that 531 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. According to the Ministry of Health, the 531 tested positive from a sample size of 8,154. In a statement to news rooms on Saturday, July 3 Kagwe said the Covid-19 positivity rate now stands at 6.5%. […]

Covid-19: 376 test positive as positivity rate stands at 9.8 per cent

376 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours according to the Ministry of Health. The 376 tested positive from a sample size of 3,831 placing the positivity rate at 9.8%. Total confirmed positive cases are now 184,537 and cumulative tests so far conducted are 1,963,532. MOH stated that 910 patients have […]

MoH to kick off measles vaccination in 22 high-risk counties

This comes in the wake of a risk assessment report that identified 22 counties as being at very high risk for measles outbreaks.

Gov’t extends 10pm-4am curfew across the country

The Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has announced the extension of curfew hours for 60 more days This comes after the expiry of 60 days that President Uhuru Kenyatta had directed for the adherence 10 pm to 4 am curfew. According to the gazette notice issued by the CS dated May 28, the curfew hours […]

COVID-19 cases soar to 10,105 with 379 new infections

Kenya’s COVID-19 cases crossed the 10,000 mark on Sunday about four months since the virus was first reported in the country. In a statement on Sunday, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced that 379 more people tested positive for coronavirus. The new cases, CS Kagwe said, were confirmed from a sample of 7,050 tested over […]

Kariobangi South residents want mass testing as panic spreads after family quarantined

Panic spreads in Kariobangi South after family is removed from their house for quarantine as a family member tests positive for COVID-19.

Revealed: Most counties not ready to tackle Covid-19 pandemic, Senate team warns

The majority of county governments are either not ready or ill-prepared to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic which is now in at least 21 counties, representatives of healthcare workers, unions and professional associations have said. They include health workers unions such as the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union, Kenya Union of Clinical Officers and the […]