Kuwait records new high of 6,454 daily COVID-19 cases

Kuwait records new high of 6,454 daily COVID-19 cases

KUWAIT: The health ministry said yesterday 6,454 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours – an all-time daily high – taking the country’s total caseload to 514,826 cases. Some 5,198 more people recovered from the virus, taking total recoveries to 464,853, the ministry’s spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said, adding the recovery to positive case ratio stands at 90.3 percent.

One fatality linked to the coronavirus raised the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 2,489, while 408 people are hospitalized with the virus, 73 of whom are in intensive care units, Dr Sanad told KUNA. Some 31,583 swab tests were conducted over the past day, taking total tests to 6,750,065.

Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds of people in England who tested positive for COVID-19 in January previously had the virus or suspected they had it, a large long-running infection survey revealed yesterday. The finding, in the latest report on coronavirus transmission by Imperial College London, is seen as further evidence of the Omicron variant’s ability to dodge the immune systems of those previously infected with the virus.

As part of its regular assessment, Imperial received around 100,000 valid swap tests self-administered by a random sample of people across England between Jan