Health & ScienceThis is as ministry announces 90 more positive cases and 72 new recoveries. There are fresh hopes that Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) might offer a cure for Covid-19, says reports in a new journal. This new filtered in even as Kenya reported 90 new positive cases yesterday raising the total number to 3, 305. The number of positive cases were from 2,419 samples tested, putting the total number of samples tested countrywide to 108,666. According to the journal, reports indicate that Covid-19 may result in suppressed immunity but stimulation of the immune system by live attenuated vaccines – like the way it is done in polio vaccines – could increase resistance to infection by Covid-19.

Source: Standard Digital June 12, 2020 17:56 UTC