{"id":9338,"date":"2020-06-09T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:56:17","slug":"72-health-workers-contract-covid-19-as-tally-increases-to-2989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/72-health-workers-contract-covid-19-as-tally-increases-to-2989","title":{"rendered":"72 health workers contract Covid-19 as tally increases to 2,989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> At least 72 health workers have so far tested positive for the Covid-19 disease as Kenya records another 127 cases in the last 24 hours bringing the country\u2019s tally to 2,989, Health CAS Rashid Aman has announced.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the daily update on the Covid-19 situation in the country, Aman (<strong>pictured<\/strong>) said that 19 out of the 72 medics are being managed in different health facilities in the country.\u201cHealth workers are perpetually at risk of contracting various infections including Covid-19, but this has not hampered them from discharging their duties,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Kenya tested 2,247 samples tested raising the country\u2019s tally of samples tested to 100,683.Aman said three more patients succumbed to the disease bringing the total number of fatalities to 88.On a positive note, Aman announced that 24 patients were discharged from hospital bringing the number of recoveries to 873.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have wished to be discharging more patients than admissions, but this is not the case because we have only discharged 24,\u201d he said.Of the new cases, Nairobi County has 62 followed by Mombasa with 34 as Busia recorded 14, \u00a0Machakos (4), Bungoma(3) while Kwale\u00a0 and Uasin Gishu counties have one case each<\/p>\n<p>In Nairobi County, Kibra is the worst hit with 21 cases, Westland (14), Kamukuji (5), Langata (4), Dagoretti North (3) Makadara, Embakasi South and Embakasi West one case each.In Mombasa, Mvita (8), Nyali (7), Chamgamwe (6), Kisauni (4) and Likoni (3).In Busia County, 14\u00a0cases are from Malaba border pointThe CAS said the high number of positive cases being recorded in the past few days is as a result of the rising sample size.\u201cOur sample size has grown which makes the numbers go up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: At least 72 health workers have so far tested positive for the Covid-19 disease as Kenya records another 127 cases in the last 24 hours bringing the country\u2019s tally to 2,989, Health CAS Rashid Aman has announced. 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