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Covid-19: Kenya records 72 more cases, nine recoveries

Kenya's Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Mercy Mwangangi gives Covid-19 updates at Afya House in the capital Nairobi. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO

By  BERNADINE MUTANU  &  VALERIE KOGA

Kenya has registered 72 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the number to 1,286.

During the Covid-19 briefing at Afya House in the capital Nairobi on Monday, Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Mercy Mwangangi said of those who tested positive, 70 are Kenyans. Fifty-two of them were tested in the capital Nairobi.

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