Four patients succumb to COVID-19 as Kenya caseload hits 106,470

By Citizen Reporter,

4 patients succumbed to the disease pushing the country's cumulative fatalities to 1,863. Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said the Kenya caseload now stands...

coronavirus , kagwe , vaccine

Kenya records 141 new coronavirus cases, 64 recoveries

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Ministry of Health has announced 141 new cases of the coronavirus, tested from a sample of 5,644 people in the last 24 hours. In a televised addr...

coronavirus

COVID-19: Kenya records 141 cases, 207 recoveries, 6 deaths

By Ian Omondi,

The Ministry of Health on Tuesday announced that 141 people tested positive for COVID-19 out of a sample size of 3,571 tested in the last 24 hours, ta...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe , ministry of health

Kenya records 129 new COVID-19 cases, recoveries

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Ministry of Health has announced 129 new COVID-19 cases, tested from a sample size of 5,091 tested in the last hours. The total number of confir...

coronavirus

Siaya: Two families in agony after their school-going kids disappeared

By George Amolo,

As schools plan to reopen next week, some two families in Ugenya and Ugunja sub-counties in Siaya are worried about the fate of their children who wen...

19-year-old girl attacks and injures two police officers in Siaya

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Two police officers are nursing injuries after they were attacked by a Form 3 student aged 19 years. The girl identified as Sheril Awino is a stude...

ugunja

Kenya’s coronavirus caseload hits 94,151

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya's coronavirus caseload has risen to 94,151 after 390 people tested positive in the last 24 hours. The latest cases are from a sample size of ...

coronavirus

Kenya’s COVID-19 cases rise to 84,169 as 551 more people test positive

By Ian Omondi,

The Ministry of Health on Tuesday announced that 551 people tested positive for COVID-19 from a sample size of 4,675 tested in the last 24 hours, brin...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Dr. Rashid Aman , ministry of health

26 more patients dead as Kenya records 1,216 new COVID-19 cases

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Twenty-six more patients have succumbed to the coronavirus disease in Kenya raising the death toll to 1,180. At the same time 1,216 people have tes...

coronavirus , COVID-19

Police constable dies after shooting self in the neck in Ugunja

By Citizen Reporter,

A police constable based at the Madungu police patrol base in Ugunja has died after he reportedly shot himself on Monday morning. Dennis Gitonga re...

‘We’ll stick with President Uhuru to the end on BBI,’ Raila declares

By George Amolo,

ODM leader Raila Odinga has assured Kenyans that they will stick together with President Uhuru Kenyatta in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) cours...

BBI , raila odinga , Uhuru kenyatta

Raila rubbishes claims that Mt. Kenya elders endorsed him for 2022

By George Amolo,

ODM leader Raila Odinga has denied reports that the visit by Kikuyu elders at his home father’s home on Saturday was meant to endorse his 2022 presi...

raila , wanjigi

MPs demand audit of COVID-19 funds within 60 days

By Elphas Lagat,

The National Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has issued a 60-day notice for the Auditor General to carry out a forensic audit at the Kenya ...

COVID-19 , KEMSA , National Assembly , Opiyo Wandayi , PAC

Three killed in car crash on Kisumu-Busia highway

By George Amolo,

Three people died on the spot after they were involved in a grisly road accident near the Ligega trading center along the busy Kisumu-Busia Highway on...

kisumu

Body of a man who drowned in River Nzoia retrieved after two months

By George Amolo,

The body of a man who drowned in the waters of River Nzoia two months ago has finally been retrieved. The body of Bernard Oduor who drowned around th...

River Nzoia

Handshake harvest: NASA bags 7 National Assembly committees

By Francis Gachuri,

The reconstitution of National Assembly committees is now complete, with the minority side - NASA, bagging 7 chairmanship slots. In what defines th...

National Assembly

5 dead after boat capsizes while searching for body of man who drowned in River Nzoia

By George Amolo,

A motor boat which was hired to help in searching for the body of a person who drowned in River Nzoia reportedly capsized, killing five people. Acc...

Joseph Sawe , River Nzoia , SIAYA COUNTY

Kitui priest who defied quarantine order transferred to Mbagathi Hospital with coronavirus-like symptoms

By Jackson Muli,

A Kitui County Catholic priest, Father Nicholas Maanzo who had returned to the country from Ireland via Italy has been transferred to the Mbagathi Hos...

coronavirus , kitui catholic priest

Coronavirus: Catholic priest spotted at Kitui supermarket, ATM after returning from Italy

By Shadrack Ilava,

A Catholic priest from Kitui County, who returned to the country on Monday, March 23 was on Tuesday night spotted at a supermarket in Kitui town befor...

Family of 4 quarantined after contact with priest who tested positive for coronavirus

By Citizen Reporter,

By Jane Cherotich. A family of four from Lwanya in Matayos, Busia County, has been placed under isolation at their home after coming into contact w...

Busia county , coronavirus , COVID-19 , Quarantine