•Kagwe said that there are 230 patients currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 3,478 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.
•The country's fatalities have risen to 5,622 after another patient succumbed to the disease.
Kenya on Wednesday recorded 60 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the country's case load to 322,274, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has said.
The CS in a press briefing confirmed that this was from a sample size of 6,126 recording a positivity rate of 1.0 per cent.
The cumulative tests stand at 3,272,286.
The country's fatalities have risen to 5,622 after another patient succumbed to the disease.
Kagwe said that there are 230 patients currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 3,478 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.
Some eight patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), seven of them on ventilatory support and one on supplemental oxygen.
Another 57 patients are on supplemental oxygen, 53 of them are in the general wards while four patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).
Meanwhile, 245 patients have recovered from the disease, 192 are from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 53 are from various health facilities countrywide.
Total recoveries now stand at 296,482 of whom 243,801 are from the Home-Based Care and Isolation program, while 52,681 are from various health facilities countrywide.
VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
As of February 8, a total of 14,192,860 vaccines have been administered across the country. Of these, 7,086,667 are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are 6,530,829. Another2372,136 are doses administered to those between 15 to 17 years while 203,228 are booster doses.
The total number of vaccines administered in the last 24 hours is197,231 while the total number of people fully vaccinated in the last 24 hours is 93,111.
The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 63.3 per cent.
Proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 24.0 per cent.
The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.