The Ministry of Health has today confirmed that sixteen people have succumbed to Covid-19.
This pushes the country’s fatalities to 3,124.
Meanwhile, Covid-19 positivity rate is at 7.1 per cent after 344 people test positive from 4,864 samples within 24 hours.
Total caseloads are 170,041 and cumulative tests stand at 1,801,449.
The ministry stated that there are 30 patients have recovered from the disease out of which three were from the Homebased care program while 27 were discharged from various health facilities.
The country’s recoveries now stand at 116,018.
Meanwhile, 1,188 patients currently admitted to various hospitals across the country.
Another, 4,712 patients are on the home-based care programme.
A total of 107 patients are in ICU, out of which 20 are on ventilatory support.
Also, 86 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen, out of which 80 are in general wards and six in the HDU.
966,433 people have so far been vaccinated countrywide.
Kisumu is on the top spot of Covid-19 infections.
This is after the deadly Indian variant of Covid-19 was detected in the county, but Governor Anyang Nyong’o says no new cases have been reported since.
According to the Health Ministry, the county of Kisumu is recording a high number of Covid-19 positive cases.
The lakeside city on Tuesday recorded almost a third of all 382 positive cases recorded in the country.
Kisumu County has over 4,000 cases that have been confirmed as of the end of last week, and about 3,000 or so of them had been diagnosed in the last seven days.