This archive report was first published on 12 September 2021.
Kenya's COVID-19 caseload continues to rise, with the Ministry of Health reporting 269 new infections on September 12, 2021. This brings the total number of cases to 243,725.
According to Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, the new cases were detected from a sample size of 3,872. The country's positivity rate stood at 6.9 percent on the same day.
Of the new cases, 1,600 people were admitted to various hospitals across the country, with 141 in the Intensive Care Unit. Unfortunately, 4 people succumbed to the virus, pushing fatalities to 4,906 since March 2020.
However, the number of recoveries continues to rise, with 960 patients discharged after recovering from the virus. This brings the total number of recoveries to 232,918.
As of September 12, over 3 million people had been vaccinated, including 827,964 who are fully vaccinated. The Ministry of Health has warned Kenyans against being lured to pay for jabs, following reports of unscrupulous persons offering the Johnson and Johnson vaccine at a fee.
The ministry clarified that the single-shot vaccine had not been deployed until Thursday, September 9, 2021, and that anyone who may have been offered the J&J shot prior to that date was duped. The vaccines are being deployed to authorized public and private health centers across the country.
Kenya has deployed AstraZeneca, Johnson and Johnson, and Moderna vaccines, and is expecting Sinopharm from China and Pfizer from the US in the coming days.
