COVID health restrictions take effect today as new cases continue to soar

COVID health restrictions take effect today as new cases continue to soar

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced yesterday recording a new daily record of 4,397 new infections with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). With the new contamination cases, Kuwait’s caseload climbed to 441,999. Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad, the MoH Spokesperson, said in a statement to the press that medical authorities recorded 626 new recovery cases, increasing the overall count of the cured to 414,867, noting that the proportion of the healed as compared to the total number of the cases reached 93.9 percent.

Dr Sanad also revealed that there was a single death due to the virus during the same period, thus the whole figure of deaths reached 2,473. As to the number of people receiving medical treatment at intensive care units, he said that there were 15 patients in these wards as of yesterday; up from 14 the previous day. The whole count of the cases with confirmed infection that continue to receive treatment has reached 24,659 and the number of people that are treated at the COVID-19 wards has stood at 162. Also in the same duration, medical staff conducted 37,540 PCR tests with the whole number of these examinations soaring to 6,273,509, Dr Sanad said, also noting that the proportion