COVID-19: Kenya records 15 new cases, 12 recoveries, zero deaths

The Ministry of Health on Saturday announced that 15 people tested positive for COVID-19 from a sample size of 3,683 samples tested in the last 24 hours, marking a positivity rate of 0.4 per cent.

Of the cases, 12 are foreigners while three are Kenyans; eight are males and seven are females, while the youngest is a 12- year-old child and the oldest is 90 years old.

Total confirmed positive cases are now 323,521 and cumulative tests so far conducted are 3,543,928.

In terms of county distribution, Nairobi recorded 7 cases, Kitui 3, Nakuru 2, Kiambu, Kilifi and Mombasa 1 case each.

In the vaccination campaign, a total of 17,738,328 vaccines had been administered across the country as of March 7, 2022.

"Of these, 16,220,861 are doses administered to the adult population (18 years and above),” Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement to newsrooms.

“Another 1,231,767 are doses administered to those between 15 to 17 years, while 285,70 are booster doses.”

The CS added that the total number of vaccines administered in the last 24 hours is 13,553 while the total number of people fully vaccinated is 10,224.

The proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 30.1 per cent, he said, adding that the government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.

Kagwe noted that 12 patients recovered from the disease, all of them from Home-Based Isolation and Care, taking the total recoveries to 317,747.

No death was however recorded, therefore cumulative fatalities stand at 5,648.

A total of 14 patients are currently admitted to various health facilities countrywide, while 112 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.

“No patient is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or on supplemental oxygen or in the general wards. No patient is in the High Dependency Unit (HDU),” Kagwe said.