{"id":15694,"date":"2020-10-10T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=15694"},"modified":"2020-10-10T18:59:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T18:59:47","slug":"covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Kenya records 538 new infections, five deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0MERCY ASAMBA\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Kenya has recorded 538 new Covid-19 infections and five additional deaths in the past 24 hours raising the country&#8217;s total caseload to 41,158.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus death toll now stands at 760.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by the Ministry of Health on Saturday, the Ministry announced that the new cases are from a sample size of 6,872. This pushes the country\u2019s cumulative tests to 586,911<\/p>\n<p>From the cases, 496 are Kenyans and 42 are foreigners and 430 are males and 108 females. The youngest is a one-year old infant while the oldest is 85.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note, 233 patients recovered with 219 on the home-based care programme while 14 were discharged from various hospitals bringing the total number of recoveries to 26, 659.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of county distribution,\u00a0Nairobi\u00a0is leading with 157 cases, followed by Bungoma and Nakuru with 118 and 48 cases respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Other counties recorded; Turkana (41), Mombasa (33), Kilifi (31), Uasin Gishu (16), Kisumu (13), Kisii (12), Meru (12), Garissa (9), Trans Nzoia (9), Narok (8), Kiambu (8), Kakamega (6), Isiolo (4), Kwale (3), Nyamira (2), Kitui (2),\u00a0 Migori (2), Busia, \u00a0Elgeyo Marakwet \u00a0and Marsabit \u00a0had one case each.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Sub County Distribution; the 157 cases in Nairobi, are from Langata (42), Kibra (23), Starehe (19), Embakasi Central (15),<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Users\/Crypto\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>\u00a0Roysambu (13), Westlands (8), Embakasi West (7), Kasarani (6),<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Users\/Crypto\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3\" height=\"1\" \/>Dagoretti South and Ruaraka four cases each, Dagoretti North, Embakasi East and Kamukunji three cases each, Embakasi North and Embakasi South and Makadara two cases each and one case in Mathare.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, 61 people have recovered from the disease, 40 from the HomeBased Care Program, while 21 have been discharged from various\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Users\/Crypto\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>health facilities.\u00a0Total recoveries\u00a0now stand at 30,937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0MERCY ASAMBA\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Kenya has recorded 538 new Covid-19 infections and five additional deaths in the past 24 hours raising the country&#8217;s total caseload to 41,158. The coronavirus death toll now stands at 760. In a statement by the Ministry of Health on Saturday, the Ministry announced that the new cases are from a sample [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2111,7,8],"tags":[1539,2226,447],"class_list":["post-15694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-kenya","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-covid-19","tag-ministry-of-health","tag-mutahi-kagwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Covid-19: Kenya records 538 new infections, five deaths - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kenya has recorded 538 new Covid-19 infections and five additional deaths in the past 24 hours raising the country&#039;s total caseload to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Covid-19: Kenya records 538 new infections, five deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kenya has recorded 538 new Covid-19 infections and five additional deaths in the past 24 hours raising the country&#039;s total caseload to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-10T18:59:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-10T18:59:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/04\/jyhoju4grsvipab7n5e9471b7a2083.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Covid-19: Kenya records 538 new infections, five deaths\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-10T18:59:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-10T18:59:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths\"},\"wordCount\":247,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/04\/jyhoju4grsvipab7n5e9471b7a2083.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19\",\"Ministry of Health\",\"Mutahi Kagwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in kenya\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/covid-19-kenya-records-538-new-infections-five-deaths\",\"name\":\"Covid-19: Kenya records 538 new infections, five deaths - 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