Cairo: Kuwait has confirmed 464 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with a drop of 220 cases against the day before, bringing the country's total infections to 63,773, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported Sunday.
The latest cases comprise 303 Kuwaitis and 161 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 433.
There are 123 patients receiving intensive care treatment, the official added in a media update.
Kuwait's total virus tests have reached 485,738 so far after 2,418 tests have been done over the past 24 hours, Dr Al Sanad said.
The Health Ministry announced that 766 more patients have recovered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising to 54,373 the overall number of recoveries from the disease in Kuwait.
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 reopened. Fifty per cent of government and private sector employees will return to work.
