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Faltering vaccine supplies in India is bad news for the world
By CNN,
658, April 20, 2021 (EAT)
The world's biggest vaccine producer is running out of Covid-19 shots as it struggles to keep pace with a huge surge in new infections. Also Read: ...
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Kenya’s coronavirus positivity rate at 14.9% after 1,091 new infections
By Tonny Ndungu,
2247, April 9, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya's COVID-19 positivity rate is now at 14.9%, with the Ministry of Health in a statement on Friday announcing 1,091 new infections, tested from 7,...
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KNH suspends planned surgeries due acute shortage of medical oxygen
By Citizen Reporter,
1347, April 8, 2021 (EAT)
The country's largest referral facility, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has been forced to scale down on surgeries due to an acute shortage of oxyge...
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Kenya records 19 new COVID-19 deaths & 1,851 cases; positivity rate now at 19.1%
By Tonny Ndungu,
1929, April 2, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya has recorded 1,851 new COVID-19 infections, tested from a sample size of 9,676 in the last 24 hours pushing the total of positive cases to 136,8...
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Kenya to be included in COVID-19 travel ban red list: U.K.
By Rachel Ombaka,
1834, April 2, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya will be included in the COVID-19 travel ban red list on April 9, the British High Commission has said. Also Read: No ICU spaces left, 10 doct...
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7 cases of adverse COVID-19 vaccine side effects being probed: MoH
By Tonny Ndungu,
1902, April 1, 2021 (EAT)
The Kenya Pharmacy and Poisons Board is currently probing 7 incidents of adverse side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. The seven cases are from the 2...
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MoH announces 984 new COVID-19 cases, 12 deaths and 388 recoveries.
By Tonny Ndungu,
1820, April 1, 2021 (EAT)
The Ministry of Health in a televised address on Thursday announced 984 new COVID-19 infections, tested from a sample size of 5,318 in the last 24 hou...
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Uhuru, Raila officially open Ngong-Kiserian-Isinya road
By PSCU,
1819, April 1, 2021 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga commissioned the 4.2 kilometre access road connecting the Nairobi Inland Container Dep...
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Kenya records 12 new COVID-19 deaths & 1,530 cases; positivity rate now at 19.1%
By Tonny Ndungu,
2007, March 30, 2021 (EAT)
The Ministry of Health in a statement on Tuesday, announced that 1,468 Kenyans and 62 foreigners had tested positive for COVID-19 , pushing the total ...
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OPINION: But Mr. President, you forgot something important …
By Guest Writer,
1232, March 30, 2021 (EAT)
By Florence Machio So we have all been treated to a flurry of clarifications after President Uhuru Kenyatta's address to the nation on Saturday Mar...
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Martha Karua wants Gov’t to bear costs of testing, treating COVID-19 in public hospitals
By Edwin Obuya,
1624, March 29, 2021 (EAT)
The government should bear the cost of testing and treating COVID-19 patients in all public hospitals, this is according to Narc Kenya party leader Ma...
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COVID-19 crisis: CS Kagwe now urges Kenyans to surrender oxygen gas cylinders
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1731, March 29, 2021 (EAT)
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe now says the country is facing an oxygen crisis in hospitals due to lack of oxygen gas cylinders amid the rising...
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MP now wants COVID-19 vaccination made mandatory for all Kenyans
By Citizen Reporter,
1817, March 25, 2021 (EAT)
Just two days after MPs underwent COVID-19 vaccination in Parliament, Kimilili lawmaker Didmus Barasa has drafted a Notice of Motion seeking to have t...
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COVID-19: KEPSA urges Gov’t to review curfew hours to 9pm-4am
By Ian Omondi,
1156, March 25, 2021 (EAT)
The Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) has issued the government with proposals of additional measures to be instituted for the next 3 weeks aimed ...
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Alarm over spiraling COVID-19 cases in Nairobi, Kenyans warned of more stringent measures
By Citizen Reporter,
1920, March 24, 2021 (EAT)
The Health Ministry has sounded the alarm over the spiraling number of COVID-19 cases in Nairobi after it emerged that 57 percent of infections this w...
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COVID-19 positivity rate now at 22.1pc as Kenya records 1,127 new cases
By Tonny Ndungu,
1749, March 23, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya's COVID-19 positivity rate is now at 22.1percent after 1,127 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours from a sample size of 5,390. T...
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Hospitals overwhelmed as cases of critical COVID-19 patients surge
By Dorcas Wangira,
1214, March 22, 2021 (EAT)
Kenya is becoming a red country, health experts continue to warn, as the country battles rising contagion numbers of the third wave. Also Read: Doc...
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28 more patients die as Kenya records 1,354 new COVID-19 cases
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1634, March 19, 2021 (EAT)
Twenty-eight more patients have succumbed to COVID-19 in Kenya pushing the cumulative fatalities to 1,982. In a press briefing on Friday, Health Mi...
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Four Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls students test positive for COVID-19
By Theuri Mbogo,
1420, March 11, 2021 (EAT)
Four students from Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls have tested positive for Covid-19 and 23 others placed in quarantine, Nyeri County commissioner Lyford K...
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4,000 Kenyans have received COVID-19 vaccine so far, CAS Mwangangi says
By Citizen Reporter,
1420, March 10, 2021 (EAT)
The Ministry of Health has said approximately 4,000 Kenyans have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus across the country, a week after Kenya ...
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