Cases rise to 96,458 ahead of New year festivities

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In this photo taken Sunday, April 5, 2020, laboratory technician Irene Ooko walks outside to take a nasal sample from a patient seeking a test for the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, at the Pathologists Lancet Kenya laboratory in Nairobi, Kenya. | (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

207 people have tested positive for the virus, from a sample size of 4,988 tested in the last 24 hours, bringing to 96,458 the number of confirmed positive cases in the country.

From the cases, 190 are Kenyans while 17 are foreigners; 130 are males while 77 are females. The youngest is a five-month-old infant while the oldest is 84.

Cases were reported as follows; Nairobi (93), Bungoma (16), Uasin Gishu (14), Mombasa (11), Nakuru (11), Kiambu (11), Homabay (8), Kajiado (5), Busia (5), Makueni (5), Kakamega (3), Kisumu (3), Kwale (3), Nandi (3), Trans Nzoia (3), Kilifi (2), Taita Taveta (2), Isiolo (2), Vihiga (2), Machakos (2), while Siaya, Mandera and Garissa reported (1) case each.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed 262 new recoveries, with 238 being from the Home-Based Care Program, while 24 were discharged from hospitals. This brings the total recoveries to 78,737.

Kenya’s total coronavirus death toll rose to 1,670 after three patients are reported to have succumbed in the last 24 hours.

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