This archive report was first published on 6 July 2020.
Kenya's COVID-19 cases have reached a milestone, with the country recording over 8,000 cases as of July 6, 2020.
According to the Ministry of Health, 181 new cases were reported, bringing the total number of cases to 8,067 since March. This comes after 2,131 samples were tested within a 24-hour period.
The new cases include 123 males and 58 females, with the youngest case being a four-month-old infant and the oldest being 79 years old.
The counties with the highest number of cases are Nairobi (134), Kiambu (19), Mombasa (9), Kajiado (6), Machakos (6), Lamu (3), Muranga (2), Uasin Gishu (1), and Kirinyanga (1).
Unfortunately, four more virus-related deaths were reported, raising the country's COVID-19 death toll to 164.
On a positive note, 127 patients were discharged from various health facilities after recovering, bringing the total number of recoveries to 2,414.
As of July 6, 2020, a total of 191,394 samples have been tested for COVID-19.
