Kenya has reported 14 new COVID-19 cases after the Ministry of Health tested 922 samples in the last 24 hours raising the numbers of confirmed cases in the country to 621 according to Dr. Rashid Aman.
The 14 COVID-19 positive cases are all Kenyans and are spread in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Machakos with the latter reporting its first case.
Ever since Kenya reported its first COVID-19 case, the Ministry of Health has so far tested 29,430 samples, 29 of whom has died of the COVID-19 infection.
The 14 new COVID-19 cases reported in Kenya are ten cases in Nairobi, three in Mombasa, and one case in Athi River Machakos which is the first-ever in the County.
The Machakos, Athi River, COVID-19 case brings the number of Counties affected to nineteen in Kenya out of the available 47 counties.
Out of the fourteen people that have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, thirteen have been picked by the Ministry of Health surveillance team while one tested positive from the quarantine center according to Dr. Rashid Aman.
The ten Nairobi COVID-19 cases include four from Kasarani, two from Madaraka, one from South C, one from Irigu while the three from Mombasa are from Likoni.
The youngest Coronavirus case reported in the last 24 hours according to CAS Rashid Aman is 11 months old while the eldest is a 49-year-old with nine of the fourteen being males and five being females.
Positively, CAS Rashid Aman has also noted that Kenya has added to the number of recoveries after five more people were discharged bring the total number of recoveries to 202 since the first case was registered.
Thirty-four of 621 COVID-19 cases are health workers positive who contribute to 5.5 percent of the total number of cases in the country but gladly, there have been no fatalities of the frontline soldiers against Coronavirus according to Dr.Rashid Aman.
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