Confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country have risen to 384 after an additional 10 people tested positive for the virus.
Health CAS Mercy Mwangangi, while delivering the daily Covid-19 presser at Afya House on Wednesday, April 29, informed that over the last 24 hours, 508 samples had been tested for the virus spread across 14 counties.
She further revealed that 1 more patient had succumbed to the virus, taking the country's Covid-19 death toll to 15.
"On behalf of the government of Kenya, and on my own behalf, I wish to pass our sincere and heartfelt condolences to the family of the departed," CAS Mwangangi mourned.
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Five more people had recovered from the virus and had been discharged bringing the country's recovery tally to 129.
The new cases were spread across the country as follows; Nairobi county registered 1 case, Mombasa 9.
Of the total tested samples, 284 were in Nairobi, while 89 samples were in Mombasa. The CAS noted that Nairobi and Mombasa maintained the lead on the number of confirmed cases at about 90%.
The new cases were aged between 10 and 63 years, with six being males and four being female.
She further noted that while several people had recovered from the virus, the ministry had received reports of stigmatization from the recovered persons.
She urged members of the public to exercise compassion and celebrate people who have recovered from the virus.
"We continue to appeal to our people to warmly welcome patients who have recovered and been discharged," CAS Mwangangi stated.
The CAS warned that members of the public from other parts of the country against taking the situation lightly even when cases were not reported in their locales.
She informed that the ministry would be intensifying surveillance in markets, singling ling out Nairobi's Kawangware area that registered the single Nairobi case on Wednesday - a woman from a market in that area.
Mwangangi highlighted that markets had become an area of concern and that the ministry was coming up with measures to ensure traders adhere to social distancing as well as properly wear face masks.
She informed that the ministry was acquiring enough supplies to ensure effective tests, as well as a higher number of people tested in a day.
"There are mechanisms that we are putting in place to ensure that at the end of the day, our surveillance teams conduct very robust tests," Mwangangi stated.
