Dr Rashid Aman, the Chief Administrative Secretary for Health, said during his daily update in Nairobi that 50 of the new cases are male and 22 female.
The new cases are spread in eight counties, with the capital Nairobi taking more than half (39), Busia (13), Mombasa (eight), Kajiado (four), Migori (three), Kiambu and Garissa (two each) and Kisumu (one).
Dr Aman Tueswday admitted the delay in remitting results is because of the temporary shortage of the testing materials.
“We have a backlog of samples that we need to test but we will clear them with time,” Dr Aman said.
“We are running low on materials and we will have to scale down on the number of tests that we are doing so that we don’t completely stop testing as we wait for the consignment that we have ordered,” he said
Despite the delay, Dr Aman assured Kenyans their samples were well kept.
