1,554 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Kenya in the past 24 hours increasing the country’s reported infections to 81,656. 

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said on Friday that the new positive cases were confirmed from 9,389 samples tested in the past 24 hours.

The cumulative samples tested since the country reported her first Coronavirus case on March 13 now stands at 870,950.

According to Kagwe, 14 more Covid-19 patients died in the past 24 hours raising Kenya’s death toll to 1,441.

Similarly, 599 more patients recovered raising total recoveries to 54,125; with 476 under home-based care and 123 treated in hospital.

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The youngest new virus patient is five months old and the oldest aged 97; 950 are male and 604 female, and only 28 of them are foreigners.

Nairobi still leads counties in new infections recorded with 546 cases followed by Mombasa with 159, Kilifi 153, Kiambu 96 and Kericho.

Kagwe also revealed that by Friday, a total of 1,200 patients had been admitted; 72 in ICU and 7,521 under the home-based care programme.

The CS Kagwe at the same time warned that the government was cracking down on fake Covid-19 certificates at all its points of entry.

"Anyone contravening protocols will face the law," Kagwe warned.