NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 13 –The Ministry of Health on Sunday reported 366 new COVID-19 cases from 4,205 samples tested within 24 hours with a single virus-related fatality registered raising the Kenya’s death toll to 1,587.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe also reported the recovery of 432 patients from the disease including 387 from the home-based care and forty-five discharged from hospitals, raising the total number of recoveries to 73,028.
He reported active 967 COVID-19 admissions in various health facilities countrywide with 6,583 others recuperating under home-based care.
Forty-eight patients were reported to be in Intensive Care Unit, twenty-eight of whom were on ventilatory support. Eighteen others were on supplemental oxygen.
Another forty patients, thirty-nine of whom were in general wards, were also on supplementary oxygen.
Nine patients were admitted in the High Dependency Unit.
