Kenya reports significant drop in daily COVID-19 cases as total surpasses 30,000
Kenya’s Ministry of Health on Sunday reported 271 new COVID-19 cases, a significant drop in daily cases compared to figures from the last few weeks in which the country has been recording more than 400 daily confirmed cases.
The East African nation’s total exceeded the 30,000 mark and currently stands at 30,120 cases, the worst in the East African region.
“From the cases, 268 were Kenyans and 3 were foreigners. The male are 170 and 101 female. The youngest case is an 8 months infant, while the oldest is 86 years old,” the ministry said.
According to the ministry, the tested samples were drawn from 3,746 people meaning Kenya has now tested a total of 391,416 people.
An additional 686 patients, majority of them from the home-based care programme, also recovered from the disease raising the total recoveries so far 16,656.
“From the discharge, 60 were from various facilities and 626 from home-based care programme. We thank our healthcare workers for this great achievement.”
The nationwide death toll also went up to 474 after two more people died from the disease.
