Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman updates the
country on the Covid-19 coronavirus disease at Afya House in Nairobi on
May 7, 2020. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Twenty five more people have tested
positive for Covid-19, raising Kenya's total number of confirmed cases
to 607, since the first one was reported on March 13.
The
Health ministry, in its daily briefing on Thursday, said Nairobi
accounted for 17 of the new cases, Kajiado and Wajir two each and
Migori, Isiolo, Mombasa and Nakuru one each.
Isiolo's
case was the first, raising the total number of affected counties to
18, following the testing of 1,075 samples in the last 24 hours.
The patients were between eight and 73 years old, whereas 21 were male and four female.
Health
Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman also announced that seven
more patients had been discharged, raising the total number of
recoveries to 197.
He also said three more patients have died, two in Nairobi and one in Mombasa, raising the death toll in Kenya to 29.
DISTRIBUTION
CAS
Aman said that of the 25 cases, Nairobi accounted for 17, nine of them
being in Eastleigh, two each in Kawangware and Parklands and one each in
Riruta, South C, Umoja and Juja Road.
The case in Nakuru was recorded in Solai.
On Wednesday, the government banned movement into and out of Eastleigh and Old Town Mombasa after they emerged as hotspots.
In
an appeal for adherence to anti-virus rules, CAS Aman said, "It’s been
noted that people in Eastleigh and Old Town are sneaking out. Note that
you may unknowingly be transferring the virus to other places within
Mombasa and Nairobi as you may be a carrier without knowing."
In
Old Town on Thursday, five people who had tested positive for the
disease disappeared from their homes together with their families.
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho said a search was launched.
STATISTICS
Meanwhile,the
total of confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa was 52,989 while the
number of active cases was 32,546, according to case tracker
Worldometer's count on May 7.
The continent had 2,018 deaths and 18,425 recoveries.
Since
the first case of the virus was reported in Wuhan, China, on December
31, 2019, it had infected at least 3,836,819 people worldwide by May 7.
The total number of deaths worldwide was 265,366 and that of recoveries at 1,308,201.
The number of active cases stood at 2,263,252, with two per cent or 48,073 of them being critical and the rest mild.
Worldometer's
count showed that the number of closed cases or cases with an outcome
was 1,573,567, with 83 per cent or 1,308,201 being the number of
recoveries or those discharged.
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