Covid-19: Kenya's caseload reaches 34,201 after 144 more test positive

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe during the Covid-19 daily briefing at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital on August 7, 2020.

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  • The Health ministry also announced 205 more recoveries, 122 of them in the home-based care programme and 83 at health facilities.
  • Nairobi remained the county with the highest number of new cases - 77 - and was followed by Mombasa with 18, Kiambu nine, Kisumu and Kajiado six each, Machakos, Narok and Turkana five each, Nandi two,  and Laikipia, Meru, Siaya, Isiolo, Kilifi, Homa Bay and Trans Nzoia one each.

Kenya's number of confirmed Covid-19 cases grew by 144 to reach 34,201 on Monday, following the testing of 4,260 samples in the last 24 hours.

The Health ministry also announced 205 more recoveries, 122 of them in the home-based care programme and 83 at health facilities.

This raised the tally of those who have recovered to 19,893, Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement, adding that the death toll rose to 577 as three more patients succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours.

CS Kagwe said the youngest patient was seven years old and the oldest 84 and that 133 of them were Kenyans and 11 foreigners.
As of August 31, Kenya had tested a total to 454,406 samples for the virus.

Nairobi remained the county with the highest number of new cases - 77 - and was followed by Mombasa with 18, Kiambu nine, Kisumu and Kajiado six each, Machakos, Narok and Turkana five each, Nandi two,  and Laikipia, Meru, Siaya, Isiolo, Kilifi, Homa Bay and Trans Nzoia one each.

Earlier on Monday, government officials attended a virtual Covid-19 conference to reflect on experiences and plan the future.

In his address, President Uhuru Kenyatta gave the Health ministry 30 days to establish a mechanism for all tenders by the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (kemsa) to be published online for the sake of transparency.

Kemsa has been on the spot for weeks over a Covid-19 procurement scandal involving the purchase of several items at exorbitant prices, leading to the looting of billions of shillings.