Kenya’s Covid-19 cases increased to 6,070 after 259 people tested positive from 2,718 samples in the last 24 hours, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi has said.

During the Ministry of Health’s daily briefing on the virus at Afya House, Nairobi on Sunday, Dr Mwangangi said that another 35 people were discharged from various hospitals after full recovery.

The number of recoveries has now increased to 1,971, while two patients succumbed to the virus, bringing the national death toll from to 143.