COVID-19: Kuwait announces 671 new cases, 4 deaths
Latest cases include 395 Kuwaitis, 276 foreigners
Cairo: Kuwait has confirmed 671 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, taking to 60,434, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported Tuesday.
The latest cases comprise 395 Kuwaitis and 276 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 from COVID-19 were announced, bringing Kuwait's total such fatalities to 412.
There are 127 patients receiving intensive care treatment, the official added in a media update.
Kuwait's total virus tests have reached 466,861 so far after 4,157 tests have been done over the past 24 hours, Dr Al Sanad said.
The Health Ministry said that 580 more patients have recovered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking to 50,919 the overall number of recoveries from the disease in Kuwait.