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Covid-19: Kenya death toll hits 62

Friday May 29 2020
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Kenya's Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi updates the country on the Covid-19 pandemic at Afya House in Nairobi on May 29, 2020. PHOTO | NTV

By ANGELA OKETCH

Kenya on Friday reported 127 new Covid-19 cases and four more deaths, raising the tally of infections to  1,745 and the death toll to 62. 

Dr Mercy Mwangangi, Health Chief Administrative Secretary, said in a briefing that 17 coronavirus patients left hospitals in the past 24 hours, taking the number of recoveries in the country to 438. 

The new cases are from Nairobi (76), Mombasa (19), Busia (16), Uasin Gishu (8), Kiambu (2), Kajiado (5) and Isiolo (1).

In Nairobi, the cases are spread in the following sub-counties: Kibra (49), Ruaraka (13), Makadara (4), Westlands (4), Langata (2), Embakasi West (1), Kasarani (1), Dagoretti North (1) and Starehe (1).

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