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Confusion on deceased numbers: 4 or 19 deaths?

21-07-2020 by redazione

Kenya will decide its near future in four days.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, after meeting with county governors yesterday, convened an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers on Friday 24 July to decide how to proceed with the Covid-19 containment and prevention measures and implement those already in place.
In the official statement issued by the Prime Minister's spokesman, Kanze Dena, the President hoped for cooperation not only among his political colleagues but also among citizens, to continue to implement the measures implemented by the Ministry of Health, which is clearly not happening in the way expected. Unlike the adjustment by the counties themselves, which have organised themselves almost all to provide basic health care and beds in intensive care units, where in many jurisdictions they did not even exist.
From the reliable rumors leaking out of Parliament, the division between those who would like to reopen definitively, remove the curfew and return to normality and those who would immediately close the country or at least the counties most affected by the pandemic, is still marked even though the front of the absolute "No" would be falling, despite having among its ranks important figures.
Meanwhile, yesterday at the national level in a first moment seemed that there was a negative record of deaths with Covid-19.
MOH announced 19 people who died in the 24 hours before Monday, July 20, bringing the total number of those who lost their lives due to causes related to the virus to 253 people, then they correct to 4.   
Speaking to Afya House, the Administrative Secretary of Health, Rashid Abdi Aman, confirmed 418 new cases, discovered by analyzing only 2474 swabs. This means that the percentage of positive per swab continues to rise exponentially. As of today, there are 13771 infections in Kenya. From March to date, 246,361 tests have been performed.
There have also been 495 cures, almost all of which were home care patients. Only 30 beds in the whole country have been left free.
The new cases are distributed mainly in the counties of Nairobi, Kiambu, Mombasa, Machakos and Kajiado. Only 3 counties have not yet registered a single positive: Baringo, West Pokot and Samburu.
"The data are increasingly worrying - explained Abdi Aman - especially in Nairobi. But citizens continue to mock the regulations and ignore the containment measures developed by our experts. There have even been political leaders who have organized large rallies, without observing social distances, and others who have violated the curfew".

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