The COVID-19 positivity rate in Kenya has hit an alarming high of 22.4 per cent with the positive cases confirmed over the last 24 hours rising above the 1000 mark.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Ministry of Health said 1,609 people tested positive for COVID-19 from a sample size of 7,176 tested in the last 24 hours.
On Wednesday and Thursday this week, the positivity rate was 10.6 percent and 16.3 percent respectively.
The total confirmed positive cases are now 260,166 while cumulative tests so far conducted are 2,915,257.
Of the 1,609 new cases, 1,512 are Kenyans while 97 are foreigners; 877 are females and 732 are males, while the youngest is a one-year-old child and the oldest is 84 years.
Three people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours pushing the cumulative fatalities to 5,353.
“A total of 186 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 2,639 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program,” said Health CS Mutahi Kagwe in a statement to newsrooms.
“Nine patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 3 of them are on ventilatory support while 9 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 3 of them being on ventilatory support while 6 are on supplemental oxygen.”
Kagwe added: “A total of 41 patients are on supplemental oxygen with 40 of them being in the general wards. One patient is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).”
The CS further stated that a total of 8,665,288 vaccines had been administered across the country as of December 15, 2021.
