Cairo: Kuwait has confirmed 641 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, raising the country's infection tally to 40,291, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported Monday.
The Health Ministry also reported four more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total such fatalities in Kuwait to 330.
All the new cases were in touch with previously infected people or are being investigated for sources of infection, the ministry's spokesman Dr Abdullah Al Sanad said in a media update.
There are 181 patients receiving intensive care treatment, according to the official.
He added that 75 more people have completed mandatory institutional quarantine and will have to spend 14 additional days in home isolation.
Kuwait has done 3,216 swabs over the past 24 hours, bringing to 357,594 the country's total virus tests so far, according to Dr Al Sanad.
The Health Ministry reported that 530 more patients have recovered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries from the ailment in Kuwait to 31,770.
