Trends in ascent and swabs everywhere, also symptomatic ones ascend.
Another 24 hours in which a percentage of Covid-19 positive cases in Kenya exceeds 10%. Yesterday Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe announced 602 new virus positives, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to over 43 thousand.
The swabs analyzed were 5618 so to give an example comparing the infection situation with the Italian one (yesterday 8800 cases out of 163,000 swabs) with the same number of swabs, in Kenya we would be talking about 20 thousand positive, not 602.
It is true that the numbers do not give the real picture of the country struggling with the pandemic, hospitalizations can do it, but in Kenya there are not many people who can afford hospitalization in an intensive care unit.
In the meantime, another 80 patients were discharged yesterday: 51 from the home care programme and 29 from hospital facilities. The total number of recoveries thus rises to 31,508.
Unfortunately, eight patients lost their lives due to the illness, bringing the total number of deaths to 805.
According to the data transmitted, Nairobi is still the county with the highest number of cases, but the number of positive cases on the coast rises to one hundred, of which 46 in Kilifi and 44 in Mombasa.
From the national authorities and also from the local authorities on the coast, the invitation is to not consider the worst to be over, but to continue to respect the three fundamental rules that can slow down the second wave: mask, social distances and frequent hand washing.