The coronavirus has killed 12 more patients in Kenya, Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Mutahi Kagwe reported on Saturday, saying the death toll had risen to 825.
The ministry also announced 616 new infections following the analysis of 5,512 samples in the last 24 hours, raising the caseload to 44,196. As of October 17, the country had tested a total of 617,064 samples for Covid-19, following confirmation of its first case on March 13.
The virus was first reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019.
CS Kagwe further reported that 104 more patients had recovered from the disease, 83 of them at home and 21 at various treatment facilities across the country, raising the total number to 31,752.