Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has raied the alarm over surging servere cases of the coronavirus pandemic, after an alarming statistic that Kenya lost 274 patients to the scourge. – By Gerald Gekara.
CS Kagwe pointed out that the state needed to relook its measures inorder to contain the virus.
In his daily briefing, CS Kagwe announced that a further 559 more cases of the virus had been reported. He said the new cases were derived from 3,074 samples.
The country Covid-19 caseload hit 70,804 while the death toll rose to 1,287 after 18 more died.
“This has been the darkest month since March when the pandemic struck. Since the beginning of this month, we have recorded some 14,927 positive cases and lost some 274 people,” said CS Kagwe.
478 patients have also recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, 337 from home-based care program while 141 are from various health facilities across the country.
