This archive report was first published on 2 January 2022.
On Sunday, Kenya's Ministry of Health recorded 1,354 new Covid-19 cases from a sample size of 5,331 tested in the last 24 hours.
The country's positivity rate is at 25.4%, with the total number of confirmed cases now standing at 298,509 from a cumulative test of 3,042,313 conducted since March 2022.
Of the new cases, 1,102 are Kenyans while 252 are foreigners, with 687 being male and 667 females confirmed to have contracted the virus.
The youngest case is a one-year-old child, while the oldest is 105 years old.
400 patients have recovered from the disease, with 216 from the Home-Based Care Program and 184 from various hospitals.
Three patients have succumbed to the virus during the same period, bringing the total number of fatalities due to Covid-19 to 5,384.
According to Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, 53 patients are in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 21 are on ventilatory support, and 26 on supplemental oxygen with 6 patients on observation.
Published on January 2, 2022, at 5:41 PM.
