17 health facilities to be launched in Nairobi
17 health facilities are set to be launched in Nairobi over the next six months.
This is according to President Kenyatta who was speaking in an interview Monday morning at KBC’s radio station CORO FM.
While...
Badly-hit Brazil begins Covid vaccine roll-out
A nurse has received the first vaccine dose of Brazil's Covid-19 immunisation programme after health regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.
Regulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac,...
166 test positive for Covid, three succumb
166 people have tested positive for Covid-19, out of a sample size of 7,077 tested in the last 24 hours.
The total confirmed positive cases now stand at 98,859.
Out of the new cases 146...
123 test positive for Covid, 412 recover
123 test positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours bringing total number of positive cases in the country to 98,555.
74 are males, 49 females with the youngest being a one year old...
Kenya’s only female breast surgeon elected to global cancer body
Dr Miriam Mutebi, Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon, clinical epidemiologist and health systems researcher at Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi has been elected to the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Board of Directors.
As a...
Covid-19: 335 test positive, 304 recover as eight succumb
335 people have tested positive for Covid-19 for the last 24 hours from a sample size of 5,424 bringing total number of confirmed positive cases in the country to 97, 733.
Out of the new...
WHO Covid investigators denied entry to China
A World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.
Two members had already set out on their journey - one...
Covid-19: 219 test positive, four succumb
219 people have tested positive for Covid-19, from a sample size of 5,413 tested in the last 24 hours, bringing to 97,127 the number of confirmed positive cases in the country.
The cumulative tests...
Broadcaster Larry King ‘hospitalised with Covid’
Veteran broadcaster Larry King has tested positive for coronavirus and is being treated at a hospital in Los Angeles, according to US media.
Sources close to his family told ABC News and his former employer...
Israel leads vaccine race with 1m given jab
Israel has given vaccinations against coronavirus to more than one million people, the highest rate in the world, as global immunisation efforts step up.
Israel has a rate of 11.55 vaccination doses per 100 people,...
