•25 patients are in the intensive care unit, 14 of whom are on ventilator support and 11 on supplemental oxygen
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The country’s death toll due to Covid-19 continued to rise after eight more patients succumbed to the virus on Sunday.
The new deaths reported by the Health Ministry pushed the fatalities to 1,763.
Ninety eight more people tested positive for the virus from a sample size of 3,739 tested in 24 hours, representing a positivity rate of 2.6 per cent. The virus caseload now stands at 100,773.
The total tests conducted in the country since the onset of the pandemic to date now stands at 1,186,951. Of the new cases, 12 were foreign nationals.
“There are 471 patients currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 1,408 are on home based isolation and care. Twenty five patients are in the intensive care unit, 14 of whom are on ventilator support and 11 on supplemental oxygen,” Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement.
“Another 16 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 13 of them in the general wards and three in the high dependency unit,” he added.
Data from the ministry shows that 52 patients recovered from the disease on Sunday, 29 from various health facilities and 23 from the home based care programme.
This pushes the number of recoveries in the country to 83,907.
Eighty six of the new cases were from Nairobi distributed as follows: Starehe with 48, Westlands with nine, Dagoretti North with seven, Kibra with three and Embakasi central, Embakasi East, Embakasi West, Makadara, Mathare and Ruaraka registering two cases each.
Other subcounties in Nairobi that recorded cases include Dagoretti South, Embakasi North, Embakasi South, Kamukunji, Kasarani, Lang’ata and Roysambu which had one case each.
Meru had two cases all from Imenti North, same as Mombasa with two cases from Mvita while Nakuru had two cases from Naivasha and Nakuru.