{"id":186519,"date":"2021-04-19T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-kenya-covid19-update-18-april-2021?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-04-19T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:46:13","slug":"coronavirus-kenya-covid-19-update-18-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-kenya-covid-19-update-18-april-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Kenya: COVID-19 update (18 April 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0f44f2391fe3165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0f44f2391fe3165\" alt=\"Ministry of Health, Kenya\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/0f44f2391fe3165\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The country recorded 366 positive Covid-19 cases on Sunday from a sample size of 3,664 tested. This brought the total number of confirmed cases to 151,653 from 1,603,332 cumulative tests conducted so far. Kenya&rsquo;s positivity rate is at 10.0%.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>From the cases, 354 are Kenyans while 12 are foreigners. 215 are males and 151 are females. The youngest is a three-month-old baby while the oldest is aged 86 years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In terms of County distribution; Nairobi 177, Uasin Gishu 24, Kiambu 23, Kilifi 20, Nakuru 19, Kitui 19, Mombasa 12, Machakos 11, Busia 9, Murang&rsquo;a 8, Kajiado 8, Kericho 6, Homa Bay 6, Isiolo 4, Bungoma 2, Trans Nzoia 2, Elgeyo Marakwet 2, Nyandarua 2, Kisii 2, Meru 1, Migori 1,&nbsp;Nandi 1, Narok 1, Nyamira 1, Nyeri 1, Siaya 1, Vihiga 1, Embu 1 and Kakamega 1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>18 deaths were also reported with one having occurred in 24 hours, 2 on diverse dates within the last one month, while 15 are late deaths conducted from facility record audits. This now pushes cumulative fatalities to 2,481.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>280 patients recovered from the disease on Sunday, 207 from Home Based &amp; Isolation Care &amp; 73 from various health facilities. Total recoveries now stand at 101,642. Cumulative discharges from Home Based Care &amp; Isolation are 73,805 while 27,837 are from various health facilities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,620 patients are admitted in various health facilities across the country &amp; 5,832 patients are on Home Based Isolation &amp; Care. &nbsp;254 patients are in the ICU, 56 of whom are on ventilatory support &amp; 155 on supplemental oxygen. 43 patients are on observation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Another 218 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen with 204 of them in general wards and 14 in High Dependency Units (HDU).<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Kenya.<\/i><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The country recorded 366 positive Covid-19 cases on Sunday from a sample size of 3,664 tested. This brought the total number of confirmed cases to 151,653 from 1,603,332 cumulative tests conducted so far. Kenya&rsquo;s positivity rate is at 10.0%. From the cases, 354 are Kenyans while 12 are foreigners. 215 are males and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-186519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/coronavirus-kenya-covid-19-update-18-april-2021.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}