Cairo: Kuwait has confirmed 751 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, taking total number of cases in the country to 61,185 the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported on Wednesday.
The latest cases are of 429 Kuwaitis and 322 foreign residents, the Health Ministry’s spokesman Dr Abdullah Al Sanad said.
All the new cases were in touch with previously infected people or are being investigated for sources of infection and identifying those who were in contact, he added.
Four new deaths was also announced, bringing Kuwait’s total fatalities of COVID-19 to 412.
There are 127 patients receiving intensive care treatment, the official added in a media update.
Kuwait’s total virus tests have reached 471,000 so far after 4,139 tests have been done over the past 24 hours, Dr Al Sanad said.
The Health Ministry also reported that 601 more patients have recovered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising to 51,520 the total number of recoveries from the disease in Kuwait.
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