At least 1,000 medics will be hired in the next week to handle the rising number of coronavirus infection.
The government announced on Sunday that the number of confirmed cases had risen to 42.
The new medics include nurses, clinical officers, lab technologists and doctors, among others.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said they will also increase the number of makeshift Intensive Care Unit beds by about 1,000.
Currently, Kenya has about 400 ICU beds.
Kagwe said the World Bank has also donated 250 ventilators, and the government was trying to buy some more from abroad, but was facing a shortage.
The new cases are one Kenyan, an American, a Cameroonian and a Burkinabe, Kagwe said.
“Sixty-nine samples have been tested in Kenya and out of those four people have tested positive,” he told journalists in Nairobi.
Three of the new cases are from Nairobi and one from Mombasa.
“Nairobi continues to lead with 31 cases, Kilifi six, Mombasa three, Kwale one and one in Kajiado,” he said.
In total, 2,050 people are being held in different quarantine facilities either because they travelled to Kenya recently or they came into contact with suspected or confirmed cases.
He said they are following 1,426 close contacts.
Kagwe said 215 people have been discharged after 14 days of quarantine.
He said three infected people had been allowed to recuperate at home under close watch of their doctors.
“Some people can be quarantined in their homes if they show capacity. If a doctor says they will closely monitor their patient at home we can allow [it],” he said.
