The country has today recorded 1,540 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the country’s caseload to 124,707.
Speaking in a press briefing Chief Administration Secretary Dr. Mercy Mwangangi said the positivity rate in the country is now at 16.5 per cent noting that Nairobi has the highest positivity rate which stands at 57.7 per cent.
The new cases are from a sample size of 9,348.
Out of the new cases 829 are males while 711 are females with the youngest being a 6 month old infant while the oldest is 110 years.
“There are 141 patients in ICU, out of which 34 are on ventilatory support. 60 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen, out of which 43 are in general wards and 12 in the HDU. 184 patients have been discharged in the last 24hrs raising total recoveries to 90,770,” she said.
The country’s total Covid-19 fatalities now stand at 2066 after 18 patients succumbed to the disease.