This archive report was first published on 16 July 2020.
Published on July 16, 2020, Kenya has recorded the highest Covid-19 recovery with 570 patients declared fully recovered over the last 24 hours.
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe announced the milestone, stating that 512 of the new Covid-19 survivors were on home-based care and 58 were in hospitals across the country.
The government adopted home-based care in the fight against the pandemic amid concerns that the country's healthcare system was stretched to the limit with a surge in Covid-19 cases.
Recoveries currently stand at 3,638, with the CS also announcing that 421 new cases had been reported across the country over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 11,673.
The new infections included 409 Kenyans and 12 foreigners, with the youngest being a one-year-old toddler and the oldest 93.
CS Kagwe also put Pathologists Lancet Kenya on the spot for conducting coronavirus testing services that produce conflicting results, citing a series of tests conducted at the facility that sparked outrage.
He stated, 'It is true that there is one lab, specifically Lancet that carried out these tests that eventually turned from positive to negative. It is also the same lab that had also tested a group of people in Nairobi that also had the same circumstance.'
The CS urged the public to be cautious when choosing laboratories for testing, saying, 'If a lab has got all these unclear results, don't go there. Why are you going to a lab that you know has been giving information that may not be clear.'
