The Ministry of Health has recorded 24 COVID-19 cases from a sample size of 4,956 tested in the last 24 hours, representing a 0.5 percent positivity rate.
All 24 people involved in the cases are Kenyans; 17 are boys and 7 are females, with the youngest being a seven-year-old toddler and the oldest being 81 years.
The total number of confirmed positive cases is currently 323,002, and the total number of tests performed is 3,381,634.
The ministry also said 39 patients are admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 483 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program and 3 others are on ventilatory support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
“Another 14 patients are on supplemental oxygen and all of them are in the general wards. No patient is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU),” Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, 22 patients recovered from the disease; 19 from Home Based and Isolation Care while 3 were discharged from various health facilities countrywide. This pushes the total recoveries to 303,274.
One person succumbed to the disease, a late death reported after conducting facility record audits in February 2022, thereby raising the cumulative fatalities to 5,640.
On the vaccination exercise, the CS announced that 16,740,060 vaccines had been administered across the country as of March 1, 2022.
Of these, he said, 7,850,174 are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are 7,636,280.
Another 998,125 are doses administered to those between 15 to 17 years while 255,481 are booster doses.
“The total number of vaccines administered in the last 24 hours is 34,763 while the total number of people fully vaccinated in the last 24 hours is 24,339. The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 63.8%,” stated the CS.
“Proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 28.0%. The government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.”
