Deputy President William Ruto announced that he will be reducing the number of tours he has been making across the country on a weekly basis.
In a statement, he posts on his Twitter wall on Tuesday announced that he canceled his “empowerment meetings” which were to be held in Kitui, Machakos, and Makueni counties over the weekend.
The Deputy President said he will no longer be transversing the counties due to the rising number of Covid-19 infections in the country.
“The upsurge in COVID-19 cases strongly indicates that a second wave may be in the offing. For this reason, I have decided to significantly scale down my public engagements until further notice. The empowerment meetings for this weekend in Machakos, Kitui, and Makueni are postponed,” said Ruto on Twitter.
Ruto’s statement comes after the Ministry of Health announced that the country has registered at least Covid-19 related 100 fatalities in the last week
On Tuesday, the country recorded 492 new Covid-19 infections from a sample size of 3728 raising Kenya’s caseload to 57,093, the Health Ministry said.
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Twelve more patients succumbed to the virus, raising the country’s death toll to 1,039 as of November 3.
On the other side, 404 COVID-19 patients were declared healed from the disease, raising the total number of recoveries to 37,846.
