Kenya on Monday recorded 170 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the country's case load to 320,399 , Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has said.
The CS in a press briefing confirmed that this was from a sample size of 3,659 recording a positivity rate of 4.7 per cent.
The cumulative tests stand at 3,189,945.
The country's fatalities have risen to 5,558 after another four patients succumbed to the disease on diverse dates.
Kagwe said that there are 721 patients currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 5,733 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.
Some 40 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 38 of them on ventilatory support while two are on supplemental oxygen.
Another 159 patients are on supplemental oxygen and 158 of them are in the general wards. One patient is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU)
Meanwhile, 556 patients have recovered from the disease, 506 are from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 50 are from various health facilities countrywide.
Total recoveries now stand at 291,917 of whom 239,954 are from the Home-Based Care and Isolation program, while 51,963 are from various health facilities countrywide.
VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
As of January 23, a total of 11,553,637 vaccines had so far been administered across the country. Of these, 6,320,249are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are5,081,189.
Another 36,792 are doses administered to those between 15 to 18 years while 115,407 are booster doses.
The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 60.7 per cent.
Proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 18.6 per cent.
The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.
