Thirty more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Kenya taking the country's total number of confirmed cases to 465.
While issuing the daily Covid-19 briefing at Afya House on Sunday, May 3, Health CAS Rashid Aman announced that 883 individuals had been tested for the virus over the previous 24 hours.
Of the 30 cases, 23 were men and seven female with the youngest being 4 years old.
He further revealed that two more patients had succumbed to the virus, taking the country's Covid-19 death toll to 24.
Fifteen more patients recovered from the virus in the previous 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 167.
The CAS sent out a warning to religious leaders who had resorted to opening mosques for prayers at night.
In the targeted testing exercise that kicked off in Nairobi's Kawangware area, 7 people tested positive with Bungoma becoming the 16th county to register confirmed cases after two truck drivers tested positive.
"Yesterday, our testing team was in Kawangware for the targeted testing. From that activity, we have confirmed seven new cases. This is now a testament that the virus is now domiciled within us and circulating within the community," stated Aman.
He also addressed the hotel industry, which was recently allowed to resume business under a raft of conditions, noting that some hoteliers had not followed the laid down measures by the state.
"We have observed that some eateries are not only operating without any regard to social distancing requirements but are also operating deep into curfew hours.
"The transport sector, particularly the matatu and boda boda operators, have also gone back to the old normal days. There is a public outcry that some hoteliers are not following the protocols we have put in place," stated Aman.
"The government will assess and determine whether these measures will continue or need to be reviewed," he added.
He also pointed out that there was a low turnout in mass testing since, in Kawangware, only 800 people were tested against a target of 2,000 while in Eastleigh, only 493 people turned up against a target of 3,000.
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