NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – About ninety-six nationals from Somalia in Kenya have so far contracted the global pandemic virus known as Coronavirus.
Since last March, the East Africa nation has recorded 17,603 cases of Coronavirus with more than of them succumbed to the disease.
According to document seen by Nairobi based newspaper, The Star, Somalis from Kenya neighbouring country are the highest patients suffering the disease.
Some 456 foreigners in Kenya have so far contracted Coronavirus. The foreigners include Somalis, Chinese, Indians with each 96, 59 and 47 respectively.
The UK has 37 nationals, Uganda 24 nationals, Tanzania 20, South Sudan 19 while Ecuador and Sri Lanka each have 12 nationals.
While the United States of America has 11 nationals, France and Burundi each have 10 nationals, Congo and Pakistan each 8 nationals, South Africa and Ethiopia each 7 nationals, Rwanda 6 nationals, Canada, Bangladesh and Nigeria each 5 nationals.
Kuwait and Austria have 4 nationals each, Cameroon, Mexico and Nepal 3 nationals each and Portugal 2 nationals.
Mongolia, Italy, Ireland, German, Netherlands, Denmark have two nationals each and Algeria, Brazil, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Malagasy, Malawi, Malaysia, Filipi, Romania, Saint Lucia, Togo, Turkey and Ukrian each with one national.
On Sunday, Kenya recorded 960 from 8,261 samples, bringing the national caseload to 17,603 from 276,215 samples tested so far.
Overall, Nairobi bears the highest number of people with the virus at 10,180 cases (58 percent), followed by Mombasa (11 per cent), Kajiado (6 percent) and Busia (4 percent).
People aged 20-40 make up the majority of those who have tested positive, accounting for 55 per cent of all the cases.
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