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| Tanzania Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu |
Tanzania has recorded 53 new Covid-19 cases raising the tally to 147, the health ministry has said.
Tanzania Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu in a briefing on Friday said the new cases were reported in the commercial hub Dar es Salaam (38), tourist island of Zanzibar (10), Lake Victoria City of Mwanza (1), northern region of Kilimanjaro (1) Coast region (1), Lindi region (1), and Kagera region in northwest (1).
Mwalimu also said that the number of deaths had risen to 5.
“We are sad to announce that we have lost one patient to Covid-19 raising number of death to five,” Mwalimu told journalists.
She added that 127 patients are in stable condition while four others are in critical due to underlying health conditions.
11 people have recovered from the virus since the country reported its first case on March 16.
“I would like to remind citizens to stay focused and follow laid-down precautions to prevent further infections, including washing hands with water and soap, observing physical distancing and avoiding crowded places,” she added.
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| Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe |
Meanwhile, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Kenya has risen by 12, bringing the number of positive cases in the country to 246 by this morning.
Five of the 12 are hotel workers while four are from contact tracing, the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe, said at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as he accompanied cabinet secretaries Fred Matiang’i and James Macharia to receive a consignment of medical supplies from China that was flown to the country by a Kenya Airways flight.
"As we stand right now, at this hour, we have already tested about 450 samples out of this, we have already got 12 positive cases and we have not finished the day. What this tells you is that we need to really start the testing capacity so that the contacts of those people who are positive can also be tested and therefore we can contain the pandemic," said Mr Kagwe.
The number of people tested for the virus now stands at 10,784 following this latest update from Mr Kagwe.
The Kenya Airways flight from China brought 500,000 three-ply masks, 200,000 testing and sampling tubes which are key to Kenya's ability to mass-test the public, 4,000 shoe covers for use by frontline health workers, 300 static shoes used in theatres, 76,000 N95 masks and face visors.
Covid-19, first reported in Wuhan, China, in December, has killed at least 149,884 people worldwide, with at least 2,219,162 infections.
Some 560,912 people have recovered globally, according to Worldometer's count on Friday. - Africa
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