President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to address the nation in the next few hours to address the nation on Covid-19 situation and review the containment measures a day after the highest case were reported since January.
On Thursday 829 people tested positive for the coronavirus. The figures were higher on Wednesday with 13.6 percent.
Data from the Health Ministry showed that 91 patients were in ICU on Thursday, up from 89 on Wednesday.
“Even as we increase the sample size to a minimum of 7,000 having received the necessary reagents the sheer number itself tells you the whole story,” Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said on Wednesday.
“I, therefore, want to support and agree with CoG that now the time has come to start looking back at some of the measures that we have taken whether to increase and to stop and make some mandatory requirements of our population.”
On Thursday, 22 cases were on ventilator support, 60 on supplemental oxygen and nine under observation. Another 28 patients were separately on supplemental oxygen with 26 of them in the general wards and two in the high dependency unit.
One more patient succumbed to the virus, raising the fatalities to 1,899.