Nairobi — Kenya's coronavirus case fatality rate declined to 3.4 per cent in May down from 5.1 per cent in April with 71 deaths having been reported as of Tuesday, June 2, out of 2,093 virus cases registered since March 13.

The Ministry of Health had reported twenty-two deaths as of May 2 with 435 cases having been registered, representing a 5.1 fatality rate in April.

On Tuesday, the health ministry reported two more deaths within 24 hours even as it confirmed seventy-two more cases out of 2,892 samples analyzed withing the same period.

With the number of confirmed cases rising 2,093, Aman urged Kenyans to continue observing the containment measures in order to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.

He noted that 499 patients, including seventeen discharged within a 24-hour period leading to Tuesday after recovering from the virus with 1,594 other cases still under isolation for treatment.