8 Kenyans Test Positive for Covid-19, Tally Rises to 363

The tally of Covid-19 infections in Kenya has jumped to 363 after eight additional cases were confirmed on Monday.

Speaking during a media briefing at Afya House in Nairobi, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the eight cases are from three counties—Nairobi, Mombasa and Kwale.

Three people tested positive for the bug in Nairobi, four in Mombasa and one in Kwale. All the eight new patients are Kenyans and none has a recent history of travel abroad.

Out of the eight patients, five were picked by the Health Ministry surveillance team while three are from quarantine facilities.

At the same time, CS Kagwe said the number of Covid-19 recoveries in the country rose to 114 after eight more patients were discharged from the hospital having recuperated from the disease.

“We are learning from experiences elsewhere, countries are opening up much earlier than we think we should, other countries have delayed…but we want to make our own measures based on our own experiences and based on what we have seen as a people. If we discipline ourselves, we can begin to defeat this virus. My hope and prayer are that this is what is going to happen,” said Kagwe.

"In addition to everything else that we are doing, we are playing our role as a ministry to see what measures we can take and assist the economy to continue going on in spite of everything," he added.