Kenya on Saturday recorded its highest number of coronavirus infections in a single day, raising the total number of confirmed cases since March 13 to 435.
Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi (CAS) announced 24 new cases of Covid-19 following the testing of 1,195 samples in the last 24 hours.
Dr Mwangangi noted that seven of these cases were recorded in Kawangware, a suburb in Nairobi, whose count increased to 20, following mass testing that began on Friday.
She said 10 of the new patients were from Eastleigh in Nairobi, whose total number of cases rose to 21, five from Mombasa and two from Kuria West in Migori County in western Kenya.
The CAS also announced that one more person had died in Mombasa, raising the country’s death toll to 22.
The ministry further reported that two more patients had been discharged, raising the total number of recoveries to 152.
In Africa, the coronavirus had infected at least 41,677 and killed over 1,697, according to case tracker Worldometer’s count on May 2.
Since the first case was reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, at least 3,417,903 people worldwide had been infected by May 2.
The total number of deaths worldwide was 239,920 and that of recoveries at 1,089,192.
The number of active cases stood at 2,088,791, with two per cent or 51,217 of them being critical and the rest mild, a figure lower than April 30’s.
Worldometer’s count showed that the number of closed cases was 1,329,112, with 82 per cent or 1,089,192 being the number of recoveries or those discharged.
