More than one half of the counties in the country have been affected by the Corona virus disease. From these different counties, a total number of 85058 people have been tested by the goverment and 2216 have been confirmed positive for the corona disease.
The Ministry of Health has reported that in the last 24 hours, it has managed to carry out 2112 new tests. From these tests,123 samples turned out positive for covid 19 disease making the number of covid 19 cases in the country to rise to 2216 persons.
The 123 new cases are distributed as follows:
Nairobi county has recorded 44 cases, which is the highest number of cases and they are distributed as follows:
Kibera had 10 cases, Embakasi South had 3 cases, Ruaka had 3 cases, Embakasi West had 4 and Westlands had 9 cases, Dagoreti reported 4 cases, Langata reported 3cases, Makadara and Mathare reported 1 case each.
Mombasa county recorded 34 cases that came from the following sub counties:
Mvita had 11 cases, Changamwe had 5 cases, Kisauni had 3 cases, Likoni reported 4 cases, Nyali reported 3 cases, Jomvu had 8 and Changamwe had5 cases.
Busia County has recorded 20 cases and all the 20 cases are from truck drivers at Malaba border. Kajiado county has recorded 3 cases and all are reported to be truck drivers as well.
Uasin Gishu county has recorded 12 cases all from Turbo . Kiambu county has recorded 3 cases. Garissa and Laikipia counties have recorded 1 case each, from Garissa town and Laikipia West constituency respectively. Nyeri county has also recorded 3 cases. 2 of the 3 cses came from Nyeri Central while as the other 1case came from Nyeri South.
