COVID-19

Kenya records 127 new virus cases, including 3-week-old baby

A total of 72 health workers have turned positive.

In Summary

• This is out of the 2,247 samples that were tested in the last 24 hours.

• Twenty-four more patients have been discharged

Health CAS Rashid Aman during the daily Covid-19 briefing on June 9, 2020.
Health CAS Rashid Aman during the daily Covid-19 briefing on June 9, 2020.
Image: WILFRED NYANGARESI

Kenya on Tuesday recorded 127 new cases of Covid-19, raising the country's total number to 2,989, Health CAS Rashid Aman has said.

This is out of the 2,247 samples that were tested in the last 24 hours.

Twenty-four more patients have been discharged.

 
 

Nairobi has 62 cases, Mombasa 34, Bungoma 3, Kwale and Uasin Gishu have one each.

On a sad note, three people have died, raising the death toll to 88.

A total of 72 health workers have Covid-19.

By sub-counties, Nairobi has cases in Kibra (21), Westlands (14), Ruaraka (12), Kamkunji (5), Langata (4), Dagoretti North (3),  Makadara, Embakasi South and Embakasi West have (1) case each.

In Mombasa the cases are from Mvita (8), Nyali (7), Changamwe (6),  Jomvu (6),  Kisauni (4), and Likoni (3).

In Busia, all 14 cases are of truck drivers at Malaba border.

In Kiambu, the cases are from Thika (2),  Ruiri and Kikuyu (1) each.

 

In Kilifi, the four cases are from Kilifi North (2), Kilifi South and kaloleni (1) case each. In Machakos all four cases are from Athi River. In Bungoma, the three cases are truck drivers from Kanduyi while the one case in Kwale is from Matuga and the the one in Uasin Gishu is from Kesses.

The CAS reiterated the importance of ending stigmatization against those who have tested positive for the virus.

He said, experience of dealing with other infectious diseases shows stigma undermines at testing and treating the disease.

"We must remember at all times that it is the virus which is the enemy not the people infected with Covid-19. We must therefore care for each other, hold each other's hand walk together in this fight, and remember that none of us is free of coronavirus until all of us are free," he said.

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