Kenya's Minister for Health Mutahi Kagwe. Photo Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health on Saturday announced that 1,286 people tested positive for COVID-19 from a sample size of 8,310 tested in the last 24 hours.

The positivity rate is 15.5 percent, with total confirmed infections rising to 228,363 and cumulative tests so far conducted are 2,305,988.

From the cases 1,264 are Kenyans while 22 are foreigners; 661 are females and 625 are males, while the youngest is a two-month-old infant and the oldest is 100 years.

The ministry also said 1,942 patients recovered from the disease with 1,766 from the Home-Based Isolation and Care program while 176 were discharged from various health facilities countrywide. Total recoveries stand at 211,781.

However, 32 patients succumbed to the coronavirus, all of them being late deaths reported after conducting facility record audits in April. - CGTN (With input from Ministry of Health-Kenya)