COVID-19: Kuwait registers 684 further cases, 4 deaths

Cairo: Kuwait has confirmed 684 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, taking the total infections to 63,309, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported Saturday, citing a health official.

The latest cases comprise 422 Kuwaitis and 262 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 429.

There are 123 patients receiving intensive care treatment, the official added in a media update.

Kuwait's total virus tests have reached 483,320 so far after 3,909 tests have been done over the past 24 hours, Dr Al Sanad said.

The Health Ministry reported that 692 more patients have recovered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising to 53,607 the total number of recoveries from the disease.

Kuwait has recently eased virus-induced restrictions as part of a phased plan to return life to normalcy.

Starting from Tuesday, a nighttime curfew in the country will be reduced to six hours a day while hotels and resorts will be opened. Fifty per cent of government and private sector employees will return to work.