Ministry targets 3.4 million children in polio vaccination

The Ministry of Health is targeting to vaccinate 3.4 million children aged below five years during polio vaccination exercise that will kick off on Saturday May 22, 2021. Health Cabinet Secretary (CS), Mutahi Kagwe, said that in February this year, the Ministry confirmed six cases of polio virus among them were samples picked from sewage material in […]

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10 Counties account for majority of Covid-19 cases in Kenya as numbers soar

10  Counties account for 86 percent of Kenya’s Covid-19 cases which have now risen to 7,886 after 309 tested positive in the last 24 hours out of 4,228 samples tested in 37 Counties, the Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS), Dr. Rashid Aman has said. The total number of samples tested in the country to 189,263 […]

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Nairobi and Mombasa bearing the bulk of Covid-19 infections

Out of 6,070 people who had been confirmed to be positive for Covid- 19 by Monday, 5,538 cases are local transmissions, accounting for 91 percent of the total case load. The bulk of infections are recorded in Mombasa and Nairobi City Counties and these same counties have the highest infection rates of COVID-19, at 119.6 […]

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Country records highest number of recoveries in 24 hours

The  government   on Monday  discharged a record high of 97 patients, from various hospitals countrywide. This now raises the total tally of recoveries to 849, the highest number of recoveries that has ever been recorded in a single 24-hour period. Giving  an update of today’s Covid 19 situation at Afya house, the Health Chief Administrative […]

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