Kenya on Tuesday recorded 72 new cases of Covid-19, raising the country’s total number to 2,093, Health CAS Rashid Aman has said.
The cases are from 2,892 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
The distribution of the positive cases by county is as follows; Nairobi, thirty-nine (39), Busia, thirteen (13), Mombasa, eight (8), Kajiado, four (4), Migori, (3), Kiambu (2), Garissa, two (2), Kisumu, one.
The youngest is 11 years and oldest is 73.
In terms of gender, 50 are males and 22 are females.
Another 17 patients have been discharged, raising the recoveries to 499.
On a sad note, another two people have died, raising the deaths to 71.
The total number of samples tested so far is 82,946.
The cases are distributed in the sub-counties as follows; the 39 cases in Nairobi are from; Kibra, (16) , Embakasi South (8) Ruaraka (5), Westlands (5), Langata (2), Embakasi West, Starehe and Dagoretti North, have one case each.
In Mombasa, the eight cases are from Mvita (2), Changamwe (2), Kisauni (2), then Likoni and Nyali have one case each.
The four cases in Kajiado are from Namanga Border point, (3), and Kitengela one.
In Migori, all the three cases are from Isebania border point, while the two cases in Kiambu are from Githunguri.
In Garissa, the two cases are from Garissa Town while in Kisumu, the one case is from Kisumu Central.
The government has said it is contemplating alternative ways to find 140 Covid-19 patients who cannot be traced.
Aman said efforts to find them have borne no fruit, despite numerous calls for them to present themselves.
He said tracing the cases using ID numbers is among the alternatives being explored.
“We have been trying to trace them but we are yet to make progress. We are therefore going to use alternative means including use of IDs and alternative contacts,” Aman said.
