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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Kenya on Saturday recorded 61 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the country’s case load to 254,276, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has said.<\/p>\n

The CS in a press briefing confirmed that this was from a sample size of 5,525 recording a positivity rate of 1.1 per cent.<\/p>\n

The cumulative tests stand at 2,767,353.<\/p>\n

The country’s fatalities remains 5,316 as no death was recorded.<\/p>\n

Kagwe said that there are 390 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities; 1,038 are under the Home-Based Isolation & Care program.<\/p>\n

A total 27 patients are in the ICU, 13 of whom are on ventilatory support & 14 on supplemental oxygen.<\/p>\n

Also, 112 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen among them 110 who are in the general wards. Two patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 59 patients have recovered from the disease out of which 43 were from the Homebased care program while 16 were discharged from various health facilities.<\/p>\n

Kenya’s recoveries now stand at 247,633.<\/p>\n

VACCINATION<\/b><\/p>\n

As of November 12, a total of 5,974,566 vaccines had been administered across the country. Of these, 3,880,224 were partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated were 2,094,342.<\/p>\n

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 50.5%. Proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 7.7%. The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.<\/p>\n

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