Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman announced on Thursday that the total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Kenya had risen to 396. Giving the ministry's daily update on new infections following the testing of 777 new samples, Dr Aman said 12 more people had tested positive for the coronavirus. He said seven were in Mombasa, three in Nairobi, one in Kitui and one in Wajir. The case in Wajir was its first since Kenya confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on March 13. The ministry further announced that two more patients had died, raising Kenya's death toll to 17. Since the first case was reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, at least 3,234,915 people worldwide had been infected by April 30. The total number of deaths worldwide was 228,598 and that of recoveries at 1,009,290. The number of active cases stood at 1,997,027, with three per cent or 59,776 of them being critical and the rest mild. Worldometer's count showed that the n...
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