Health Minister makes positive remarks during Cabinet meeting

Health Minister makes positive remarks during Cabinet meeting

KUWAIT: The Cabinet on Monday held its weekly session at Seif Palace under chairmanship of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Following the session, Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah stated that the Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Humoud Al-Sabah addressed his fellow ministers about the latest developments related to the coronavirus, amid spread of the contagion and rise of deaths and infection cases globally.

The health minister has informed the ministers about the local health status, based on statistics that have indicated that the number of the daily cases since the start of the pandemic as of Monday has amounted to more than 266,000, while the count of recoveries have exceeded 250,000, with a 93.6 percent proportion.

He also explained to the executives precautionary measures that have been undertaken to stem spread of the pandemic in the country through vaccinations with Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca, where nearly 1.088 million people have been inoculated in Kuwait, with the aim of reaching the aspired community immunity. The Cabinet called on citizens and residents to continue adhering to health guidelines, and seek to take the anti-COVID vaccines to contain the contagion.