Coronavirus
2-Month-Old Infant Among 193 New COVID-19 Cases
Kenya has confirmed 193 new coronavirus cases out of 3,381 samples that were tested in the past 24 hours, raising the total infections in the country to 32,557.
All the cases were Kenyans except for three who were foreigners.
The youngest case to be infected was a two-month old infant with the oldest being 87 years old.
Infection rate among men remained high where out of the total cases, 56 were female against male at 137.
255 COVID-19 recovered from the virus, more figures than the positive cases in a single day since cases in the country started to skyrocket two months back.
Home-based care has proved to be effective as Health Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman confirmed that 188 of the recoveries were from home while 37 were from various health facilities.
Nairobi still leads in the number of infection having recorded 87 of the total cases, followed by Kiambu at 54.
The country’s death toll rose to 554 after six more patients succumbed to the virus.
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