COVID-19 Day 42 In Kenya: Cases Rise To 320 As 17 More Test Positive

Kenya has a total of 320 confirmed cases of COVID-19 after 17 more people have tested positive in 668 samples tested in the last 24 hours according to Health CAS Doctor Mercy Mwangangi.

The 17 new COVID-19 cases are 12 people in Mombasa while five people are residents of Nairobi  where 478 samples were drawn in the last 24 hours with all the positive cases being of Kenyans who have no history of travel.

Speaking to the media, Doctor Mercy Mwangangi has noted that the rate of community transmission of COVID-19 is worrying yet Kenyans seem to be drifting to their old ways hence creating a spread ground for the deadly virus.

Fifteen of the seventeen people that have been confirmed positive for COVID-19 were picked from different areas in Mombasa and Nairobi and were living among community members unaware of their COVID-19 status.

The increased rate of community transmission of COVID-19 has had Dr.Mwangangi reiterate that Kenyans need to strictly adhere to the measures set as their actions are endangering the lives of many in the country and only two people have been drawn from the quarantine centers out the 17 positive cases.

Out of the seventeen that have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kenya in the last 24 hours, nine (9) are males while eight (8) are females.

“On positive news, i am glad to announce that six people have recovered and tested negative for COVID-19 twice and have since been discharged from the hospital facility,” Doctor Mercy Mwangangi has said adding that the total number of recoveries in Kenya now is 89.

The cases were 303, after seven people tested positive on 22nd April 2020, according to the 22nd COVID-19 briefing, 83 recoveries, and 14 deaths with 15, 124 total tested samples.

“There is nothing to celebrate when runaway impunity takes place at the risk of all of us,” he said.

“A slight lapse in behavior could roll back the gains we have made and the destiny of our nation.”

The government rolled out a helpline to help reduce stress and mental illnesses brought about by the effects of the coronavirus according to Health CS Kagwe on 22nd April saying mass testing is going on. There are 25,000 testing kits deployed.

He said Kenya aims to conduct 250,000 tests by the end of June.

For community-based surveillance, the target is 100,000 households.

Coronavirus cases in the world are currently more than 2.6 million with 730,000 recoveries and more than 185,000 deaths, 47,000 deaths of the global figure are in the United States where 849,000 people have also recovered.

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