The Kenyan Ministry of Health has indicated that the country is on the right track in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that all signs point out that the infection curve has been flattened.
On Wednesday, the country recorded 130 new COVID-19 cases out of 3,874 samples tested in the last 24 hours which also marked a positivity rate of below 5%. This brings the country’s total caseload to 38,348.
At the same time, five more patients succumbed to the disease raising the total fatalities to 664 while the number of recoveries rose to 24,253 after 106 patients recovered from the disease. Out of the 106 recoveries, 81 were discharged from hospitals while and 25 were under the home-based care.
In a press briefing on Wednesday, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe noted that over the last month, the country has recorded a positivity rate of below 5% which according to the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines points at a flattening curve.
He, however, cautioned that any laxity in adhering to the stimulated COVID-19 containment measures could revert the gains made in combating the disease which has claimed over 600 lives in Kenya.
“In the course of this month except for a couple of days we have been on a positivity rate of below 5%. The WHO proposes that when you can run a below 5% positivity rate for over 14 days then as a nation you have begun to flatten the curve,” said CS Kagwe.
Health Ministry Director-General Dr. Patrick Amoth echoed CS Kagwe’s remarks on the flattening curve saying in addition to the positivity rate of below 5% a high number of patients had been discharged from hospitals in the last two months.
