Kenya has recorded 1,006 new COVID-19 cases from a sample size of 5,584 tested in the last 24 hours pushing the cumulative cases to 199,941 while the positivity rate stands at 18.0%.
According to the Ministry of Health, total recoveries now stand at 187,824 as 261 more patients have recovered from the disease.
From the new recoveries, 228 were from various health facilities countrywide while 33 are from the Home Based Isolation and Care program.
Sadly, 13 patients are reported to have succumbed to the disease, all of them being late deaths reported after conducting facility record audits on diverse dates in the month of July 2021.
Therefore, the cumulative fatalities stand at 3,895.
From the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 41 are on ventilatory support, 82 on supplemental oxygen and 51 patients are under observation.
Another 433 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 387 of them in general wards and 46 in High Dependency Units (HDU), the Ministry added.
In the case of vaccines, so far, 1,692,793 vaccines have been administered across the country. Out of these, total first doses are 1,052,343 while second doses are 640,450.
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