Kenya has for the past one month maintained a positivity rate of less than 5%, the minimum global threshold signifying a flattening infection curve. – By Gerald Gekara
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe commended Kenyans for upholding the proposed directives, urging them to continue despite the developments.
“In the course of this month except for a couple of days we have been on a positivity rate of below 5%. The WHO proposes that when you can run a below 5% positivity rate for over 14 days then as a nation you have began to flatten the curve,” said CS Kagwe.
Kagwe was speaking at a press briefing where he confirmed 130 new COVID-19 cases that have pushed the country’s caseload to 37,348.
The new cases were sourced from 874 samples that were tested in the last 24 hours.
In terms of counties, Nairobi recorded relatively low numbers at (35), Kiambu (23), Kisumu (19), Mombasa (14), Uasin Gishu (8), Kericho (6), Kisii (5), Busia (5), Kilifi (5), Bomet (2), Narok (2), while Meru, Siaya, Trans Nzoia, Turkana, Kajiado and Machakos each recorded (1) new case each.
Kenya’s death toll rose to 664, after five more patients succumbed to the disease.
The number of recoveries have risen to 24,253 after 106 patients were declared negative.
81 of the new recovery cases were from medical facilities while 25 were under the homebased care programme.
