Eight more patients dead as Kenya records 538 new COVID-19 cases

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Eight more patients have succumbed to COVID-19 in Kenya raising the total number of fatalities recorded since the outbreak of the disease in the count...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , rashid aman

Kenya’s COVID-19 cases rise to 23,202 after 605 more patients test positive, 6 dead

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Kenya has recorded 605 more COVID-19 cases after testing of 4,547 samples, pushing the country's total caseload to 23,202. In a press briefing on T...

coronavirus , COVID-19

Kenya records 690 new coronavirus cases,5 deaths and 58 recoveries

By Tonny Ndungu,

690 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus from 5393 samples tested between Saturday and Sunday. The latest brings the total number of c...

coronavirus

Senate suspends physical meetings over rising cases of COVID-19

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Kenyan senate has banned physical meetings for a month to avert the spread of the new coronavirus. Speaker Kenneth Lusaka said the move was inf...

coronavirus

Gov’t lists its 14 quarantine, isolation facilities in Nairobi County

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Ministry of Health has published a list of 14 isolation and quarantine facilities within Nairobi County where patients can seek help. St George...

coronavirus

16-year-old succumbs to coronavirus in Kenya, caseload rises to 21,363

By Citizen Reporter,

A 16-year-old patient is among 23 people to succumb to coronavirus in Kenya as the country reported 727 more people had tested positive. Health CS ...

coronavirus

Grandfather, uncle arrested for defiling 11-year-old relative for 4 years

By Enock Muswii,

Police officers from Kathiani have arrested two men; a grandfather an uncle who defiled an 11-year-old on various dates between 2016 and 2020. The ...

14 more patients dead as Kenya records 606 new COVID-19 cases

By Ian Omondi,

COVID-19 infections in the country has risen to 18,581 after 606 more patients tested positive for the disease from 4,888 samples tested within the la...

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Kenya records 440 new COVID-19 cases, 5 more deaths

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Kenya has recorded 440 new COVID-19 cases after testing of 3,197 samples, raising the country's caseload to 17,975. In a statement issued on Monday...

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Kenya records 960 new COVID-19 cases

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Kenya has recorded 960 new coronavirus cases pushing the country's total caseload so far to 17,603. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Ministry o...

coronavirus , COVID-19

COVID-19: Diabetes, obesity declared risk factors as Kenya records 375 new cases

By Ian Omondi,

The country’s health ministry on Saturday termed diabetes, obesity and hypertension as risk factors for COVID-19 as the caseload for the disease ros...

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Kenya announces 637 new cases of coronavirus, 10 deaths

By Tonny Ndungu,

637 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Health announced in a televised statement on Wednesday. 14 of the new case...

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12 patients succumb to coronavirus in Kenya as cases rise to 14,168

By Citizen Reporter,

12 more patients have died from coronavirus in Kenya raising the death toll to 250. Speaking during a Press briefing on Tuesday, Health CAS Rashid ...

coronavirus

7-month-old baby among 603 new coronavirus cases in Kenya

By Tonny Ndungu,

603 Kenyans tested positive for the novel coronavirus between Saturday and Sunday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Sunday. Kenya now ...

coronavirus

COVID-19 in Machakos: 68 out of 97 new cases recorded from one factory

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Out of the 97 new COVID-19 cases that were recorded in Machakos County on Wednesday, 68 of them were confirmed from a single factory in Mavoko Sub-cou...

coronavirus , machakos

We Can’t Breathe: Plight of Syokimau residents in face of air pollution

By Enock Sikolia,

The world is facing a pandemic that has thrown economies into a spin and the number of mortalities is rising. Many companies and factories have bee...

Bustani Villas , Endmor Steel Millers , Nazir Hakada , Sawada Villas , Syokimau

Puzzle of lovebirds found dead in Machakos a day after travelling from Nairobi

By Enock Muswii,

Two lovers were on Sunday afternoon discovered dead at Kaumoni village in Machakos, a day after they travelled from Nairobi. Preliminary investigat...

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Five killed, 13 seriously injured in dawn accident on Kitui-Machakos road

By Citizen Reporter,

Five people have perished in grisly road accident involving three vehicles; two 14-seater matatus and a lorry at Kingaatuani ,on the Kitui-Machakos ro...

10 injured after accident at Salgaa black spot

Kenya’s COVID-19 infections hit 8,250 as mental health raises concern

By Ian Omondi,

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe on Tuesday announced that the country had confirmed 183 new positive cases of COVID-19, taking the total number ...

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Athi River Shalom Hospital cleared to resume operations

By Enock Muswii,

Athi River Shalom Hospital has been cleared to resume normal operations barely three days after three patients succumbed to COVID-19. Kenya Medical...

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