The number of Covid-19 cases in Kenya rose to 225 on Wednesday with the reporting of nine more positive cases of the disease.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said 803 samples had been tested since Tuesday, when the ministry reported a total of 216 confirmed cases since the coronavirus was first reported in Kenya.
CS Kagwe said all the new patients were Kenyans and that five cases were reported in Nairobi and four in Mombasa.
CS Kagwe further said a total of 2,366 people had been tested and 1,911 released, leaving 455 under follow-up.
He said 12 more people had been discharged from hospital raising the number of recoveries to 53.
He also reported one more death, raising the number to 10.
While noting that Kenya was not out of danger, CS Kagwe reiterated the need for the public to remain cautious and follow all of the government’s directives for containing the spread of the virus.
He said the game changers in the fight against the virus remained mass testing, isolating and treating.
CS Kagwe said Kenya’s death rate of four per cent was within the global range of 6.3 per cent and that 144 of its cases were imported but warned that these figures should not be viewed as an indicator of a time to relax.
“A comparative of the counties being overrun by the virus shows they were reporting similar figures as we are now,” he said.
He added, “The battle will be won not by the government but by Kenyans working together.”
