30 TEST POSITIVE AS KENYA'S COVID-19 CASES JUMP TO 465

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• 30 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Kenya taking the country's total number of confirmed cases to 465.
  While issuing the daily Covid-19 presser at Afya House on Sunday, May 3, Health CAS Rashid Aman announced that 883 individuals had been tested for the virus over the last 24 hours.
  Of the 30 cases, 23 are men, seven are female with the youngest being 4 years old.
  He further revealed that two more patients had succumbed to the virus, taking the country's Covid-19 death toll to 24.
  
  

  Medical practitioners at a Coronavirus isolation and treatment facility in Mbagathi District Hospital on 
  15 more people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 152.
  He also warned religious leaders who had opened Mosques at night for prayers threatening action against them.
  
  
  
  
  In a test carried in Kawangware alone, 7 people tested positive with the latest coming from Bungoma increasing the total counties with confirmed cases to 16.
  "Yesterday. our testing team was in Kawangware for the targeted testing. From that activity, we have confirmed seven new cases. This is now a testament that the virus is now domiciled within us and circulating within the community," stated Aman.
  He also addressed the hotel industry, which was recently allowed to resume activities under a raft of conditions, noting that some hoteliers had not followed the laid down measures by the state.
  "We have observed that some eateries are not only operating without any regard to social distancing requirements but also deep into curfew hours.
  "The transport sector, particularly the matatu and boda boda operators have also gone back to the old normal days. There is a public outcry that some hoteliers are not following the protocols we have put in place," stated Aman.
  
  
  
  
  "The government will assess and determine whether these measures will continue or need to be reviewed," he added.
  He also pointed out that there was a low turnout in mass testing since, in Kawangware, only 800 people were tested against a target of 2,000 while in Eastleigh, only 493 people turned up against a target of 3,000.

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