Covid-19: No new deaths in Kenya as cases rise by 241 to reach 33,630
What you need to know:
- Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman reported 241 more cases of the diseases, raising the count to 33,630.
- Meanwhile, government officials visited Nyeri County on Friday, where they launched community engagement in the fight against local transmission of the coronavirus as Kenya aims to flatten the curve.
None of the coronavirus patients in Kenya has died in the last 24 hours, the Health ministry said in the daily briefing on Friday, noting that the death toll remained 567.
Speaking at Afya House in Nairobi, Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman reported 241 more cases of the disease, raising the count to 33,630.
Dr Aman said 66 more patients had recovered, 40 of them at home and 26 in hospitals, raising the total number to 19,434.
The 4,520 samples raised the total tested nationwide as of August 28 to 442,713.
One hundred and fifty two of the new patients were male and 89 female, while the youngest was a year old and the oldest 86.
Nairobi recorded 113 cases, Mombasa 14, Taita Taveta and Kiambu 10 each, Kirinyaga and Narok nine each, Kajiado eight, Laikipia and Nakuru seven each, and Uasin Gishu and Turkana six each.
Busia and Lamu had five new cases each, Trans Nzoia, Kilifi, Kericho and Kakamega four each, Kisumu three, Nyeri, Machakos, Makueni and Bomet two each, and Kitui, Bungoma, Embu, Nyandarua and Nandi one each.
Rural infections
Meanwhile, government officials visited Nyeri County on Friday, where they launched community engagement in the fight against local transmission of the coronavirus as Kenya aims to flatten the curve.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i said the government would step up community engagement at the grassroots level, "a critical phase where focus is on capacitating rural populations to suppress and prevent large scale community transmission of the virus".
"The war against the coronavirus is not yet over. There is a lot of work to be done and engaging with the rural populations is the first step towards containing the spread," he said after his meeting with government administrators, who will play a key role in sustaining the containment measures.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe stressed the need to align responses to the dynamics of infection rates and community needs.
"We see a worrying growth in the number of cases in rural areas. Government administrators must now swing into high gear in sensitising the public on the need to maintain cleanliness and transform all the hygiene measures we have introduced into routine practices post-coronavirus," he said.
