Kenya on Friday recorded 2,791 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the country's case load to 295,028, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has said.
The CS in a press briefing confirmed that this was from a sample size of 9,384 recording a positivity rate of 29.7 per cent.
The cumulative tests stand at 3,030,272.
The country's fatalities have risen to 5,378 after another two patients succumbed to the disease on diverse date in December.
Kagwe said that there are 1,013 patients currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 23,229 are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.
Some 38 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 17 of them on ventilatory support while 21 are on supplemental oxygen.
Another 234 patients are on supplemental oxygen and 209 of them are in the general wards. 25 patients are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).The table below shows t
VACCINATION
Kenya has managed to attain the projected 10 million target in the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination campaigns.
As of December 30, a total of 10,002,184 vaccines had so far been administered across the country.
Of these, 5,820,951 are those above 18 years who are partially vaccinated while those fully vaccinated were 4,155,832, another 20,121 are doses administered to those between 15 to 18 years while 5,280 are booster doses.
The uptake of the second dose among those who received their first dose was at 55.8 per cent.
Proportion of adults fully vaccinated was 15.3 per cent.
The Government is working towards vaccinating a targeted population of 27,246,033.