Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi has announced the death of a six-year-old boy who succumbed to Covid-19 related complications.
While addressing the media at Afya House on Friday, April 3, the CAS informed that the child suffered from a pre-existing medical condition, which resulted from immunosuppression which affects the bone marrow.
"I am saddened to inform you that we have lost another patient to the coronavirus disease. The person is a 6-year-old male child who was also ailing from other conditions and had been admitted at the Kenyatta National Hospital," Mwangangi stated.
The boy becomes the youngest reported person to have succumbed to the virus since the outbreak in the country.
Mwangangi announced that eleven other patients had tested positive for Coronavirus, taking the country's total confirmed tally to 122.
Health Director-General Patrick Amoth informed that the boy had other symptoms, which medics chose to prioritise. His samples tested positive after the child had died.
Amoth informed that doctors and nurses who had handled the child have been isolated and the room the boy was held in fumigated.
Kenyans.co.ke learnt that the medical practitioners handling the child had no idea he was infected and thus used no protective gear.
The number of those who have succumbed to the disease in the country is now at 4.
The CAS further distributed the 12 new cases as follows; Kiambu 1, Laikipia 1, Mombasa 2, Nairobi 7 and Nyeri 1, adding that 300 tests had been conducted in the past 24 hours.
Nine of the 12 confirmed covid-19 cases were detected while in quarantine while the other three were suspected cases who were admitted to different health facilities.
The CAS informed Kenyans that contact tracing had been done on 1433 samples from those in quarantine and 617 were yet to be tested.
The Health Ministry is monitoring 1,721 contacts and so far 1,073 have been discharged.
