•Total confirmed positive cases are now 323,195.
•1 patient has succumbed to the disease.
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Kenya on Monday recorded 12 new covid-19 cases, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said.
The CS in a press briefing confirmed that this was from a sample size of 2,739 tested in the last 24 hours.
One patient succumbed to the disease and is a late death reported after conducting facility audit records in March 2022. Therefore, this pushes the cumulative fatalities to 5,646.
The positivity rate is now at 0.4%.
Kagwe said that from the cases, all 12 are Kenyans. 8 are males while 4 are females. The youngest is a 14-year-old while the oldest is 82 years.
Total confirmed positive cases are now 323,195 and cumulative tests so far conducted are 3,442,995.
In terms of County distribution; Nairobi 11 and Nyeri one.
There are no recoveries from the disease. The total number of recoveries remain at 317,491 of whom 264,491 are from the Home-Based Care and Isolation program, while 53,000 are from various health facilities countrywide.
Cumulative deaths by age; 0-9 years (62), 10-19 years (43), 20- 29 (149), 30-39 years (409), 40-49 years (647), 50-59 years (1,027), 60 years and above (3,309).
A total of 17,129,923 vaccines have been administered across the country.
Of these, 7,926,069 are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated are 7,835,495. Another 1,104,187 are doses administered to those between 15 to 17 years while 264,172 are booster doses.
The total number of vaccines administered in the last 24 hours is 7,485 while the total number of people fully vaccinated in the last 24 hours is 4,136.
The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 64.8 per cent.
The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 28.8 per cent. The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.
As of March 13 2022, a total of 21 patients are currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 137 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.
Meanwhile, one patient is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and is on ventilatory support.
Another four patients are on supplemental oxygen and all of them are in the general wards. No patient is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).