Cairo: Kuwait has confirmed 703 new cases of the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, taking the country's infection tally to 56,877, the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported Wednesday.
The latest cases comprise 434 Kuwaitis and 269 foreign residents, the Health Ministry's spokesman Dr Abdullah Al Sanad said.
Three more deaths from COVID-19 have brought the total such fatalities in Kuwait to 399, according to the official.
All the new cases were in touch with previously infected people or are being investigated for sources of infection and those who were in contact, Dr Al Sanad added.
There are 146 patients receiving intensive care treatment, the official said in a media update.
Kuwait's total virus tests have reached 445,184 so far after 4,041 tests have been done over the past 24 hours, Dr Al Sanad said.
The Health Ministry said that 736 more patients have recovered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bringing to 46,897 the total number of recoveries from the disease in Kuwait.
