Covid-19: Kenya cases hit 6,070 as 35 leave hospital

Kenya's Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Mercy Mwangangi gives updates on Covd-19 in the capital Nairobi on June 28, 2020. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG 

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• Two patients succumbed to the virus, taking the national death toll from the virus stands at 143.

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By BERNADINE MUTANU
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Kenya’s Covid-19 cases increased to 6,070 after 259 people tested positive from 2,718 samples in the
last 24 hours, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi has said.

During the Ministry of Health’s daily briefing on the virus at Afya House, Nairobi on Sunday, Dr Mwangangi said that another 35 people were discharged from various hospitals after full recovery.

The number of recoveries has now increased to 1,971, while two patients succumbed to the virus, bringing the national death toll from to 143.