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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Kenya on Sunday recorded 1,372 new Covid-19 cases, from a sample size of 5,635 tested in the last 24 hours, with the positivity rate now at 24.4%.<\/p>\n

From the cases 1,260 are Kenyans while 112 are foreigners with 699 being females and 673 are males.<\/p>\n

The youngest is a five-month-old child while the oldest is 90 years.<\/p>\n

This brings the total confirmed positive cases to 263,707 and cumulative tests so far conducted are 2,930,320.<\/p>\n

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said 74 patients have recovered from the disease, 50 from various health facilities countrywide while 24 are from the Home Based Isolation and Care program.<\/p>\n

This pushes the total number of recoveries to 249,296 of whom 201,149 are from the Home-Based Care and Isolation program, while 48,147 are from various health facilities countrywide.<\/p>\n

He also said that no death has been reported, with the cumulative fatalities remaining at 5,353.<\/p>\n

A total of 278 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 4,996 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.<\/p>\n

14 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), seven of them on ventilatory support while seven are on supplemental oxygen.<\/p>\n

Another 64 patients are on supplemental oxygen and 60 of them are in the general wards. Four patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).<\/p>\n

As of December 18, a total of 8,861,039 vaccines had so far been administered across the country.<\/p>\n

Of these, 5,288,176 were partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated were 3,572,863.<\/p>\n

The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 56.3 per cent.<\/p>\n

The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 13.1 per cent.<\/p>\n

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