Photo | Jeff Angote | NationNairobi could be plunged into a full-blown health crisis with Intensive Care Units (ICU) beds set aside for Covid-19 patients almost full. Head of Infectious Diseases at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) Dr Loice Ombajo raised concerns that health facilities in the capital are quickly running out of bed space with a surge in daily Covid-19 cases. The country has this month witnessed a spike in reported cases of Coronavirus in what is feared to be a second wave of the deadly disease. Nairobi has continued to be the epicenter of the deadly disease and on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, it recorded 556 new Covid-19 cases out of the 836 cases reported nationwide that day. Kenya’s Covid-19 positivity rate hit an all-time high of 20.5 percent on Tuesday when 836 cases were reported from a sample of 4,076 yesterday.

Source: Daily Nation October 29, 2020 04:30 UTC