COVID-19: Kuwait registers 1,008 new cases, 11 fatalities
Latest cases take total to 26,192 infections, 205 deaths
Cairo: Kuwait Saturday confirmed 1,008 new cases of the novel coronavirus, raising the country's infection tally to 26,192,184, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported.
The Health Ministry also announced 11 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total such fatalities in the country to 205.
All the new cases were in contact with previously infected people or are being investigated for sources of infection, the Health Ministry's spokesman Dr Abdullah Al Sanad said in a media update.
There are 206 patients receiving intensive care treatment, according to the official.
He said that 42 people have left institutional quarantine centres and will have to spend at least 14 days in home isolation.
The ministry reported that 883 more patients have recovered from the disease, bringing to 10,156 the total of such recoveries in the country.
Starting from Sunday, Kuwait will enforce a 12-hour curfew, replacing a 20-day total curfew that began on May 10 across the country to stem the spread of the coronavirus.