Always lower and lower.
Kenya falls well below the security rates, registering 83 cases (it was not so low since last June 1) on 3093 tampons, with an average of 2.68 contagions per 100 people. Despite the World Health Organization calls for caution and not "freeing the oxen from the barn", now part of the Kenyan Government is convinced that it could accelerate the total reopening of the country, starting with schools, one of the sore points of society that affects millions of families and thousands of state and private employees.
Yesterday, however, another 72 patients were declared cured. Of these, 33 have freed up a hospital bed while the others were already being treated at home and only about twenty patients in the country are admitted to intensive care wards.
Three people in the last 24 hours have died, bringing the total number of deaths related to Covid-19 in the country to 597, while the still active cases of which we know would be 13276.
On the coast to report only one confirmed case of virus positive, recorded in Mombasa.
Nairobi registered only 27 cases, it has been months since the capital city did not report such a low figure.
The Ministry of Health, having reduced the emergency, is now focusing on the damage done by the pandemic this month, especially with regard to vulnerable citizens.
"Malnutrition is one of the problems found in one in 10 children in the country and 45% of deaths of children under five years of age are associated with this problem - said the Administrative Secretary of Health, Rashid Abdi Aman - while 25% of them detected mental health problems".
To combat the threat of undernutrition, Abdi Aman publicly reiterated that the integration of micro-nutrients of iron / folic acid for pregnant women, and vitamin A for children under 5 years, are provided free of charge in public health facilities.