EXPLAINED: 447 Missing Covid-19 Cases in Total Tally

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Health CAS Mercy Mwangangi on Friday, May 29, clarified a discrepancy in the country's total coronavirus cases.

Responding to a question by Citizen TV's Waihiga Mwaura during Thursday's briefing where 447 cases were not accounted for, Mwangangi explained that there was a misunderstanding between samples tested and people tested.

"One patient can consume more samples in any case of determination of a positive or a negative case. There is a protocol to follow to determine this. So when we say we've had 70,000 samples tested it doesn't mean we've tested 70,000 individuals," she explained.