In its daily briefing, the Health ministry also announced 225 more recoveries and six more deaths, raising the total counts to 18,895 and 554 respectively. On Sunday, 246 new cases were reported after the testing of 4,179 sample in 24 hours. As such, Dr Amoth said, the next three weeks are crucial for Kenya as the Health ministry projected that the peak infections season would be late August to September. The positivity rate is calculated by dividing the number of new infections with the number of samples tested and multiplying this by 100, so it often fluctuates. While reporting the 7.9 per cent rate last week, CAS Mercy Mwangangi said that while the positivity rate was only two per cent after Kenya reported cases of the coronavirus, it had since risen.

Source: Daily Nation August 24, 2020 12:24 UTC