This archive report was first published on 14 May 2020.
On May 14, 2020, Kenya's Health Ministry announced 21 new positive cases of the coronavirus, raising the total number to 758 since the outbreak of the disease in March.
According to Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Mercy Mwangangi, the new cases were from 1,486 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
Of the new cases reported, 12 were from Mombasa, four from Nairobi, four from Kajiado, and one from Uasin Gishu County. The new patients are aged between seven years and 79 years.
Ms Mwangangi announced three more patients have been discharged, bringing the total number of Kenya's recoveries to 284.
Unfortunately, two more deaths from the disease were reported, raising the total fatalities in the country to 42.
The government has now tested a total of 36,918 samples since the outbreak of the disease on March 13.
Ms Mwangangi emphasized that Kenya's porous borders have become the latest weak link in the fight against the disease.
"Our porous borders are the ones that have become the latest high-risk areas in the transmission of the disease and they are now our key area of focus," she said.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday that coronavirus may never go away and people will have to learn to live with it.
WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan said, "It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away."
