Dubai: Kuwait reported nine more COVID-19 related deaths and 665 new cases on Monday.
The Ministry of Health said the country’s total coronavirus cases have risen to 21,967, while its death tally reached 165.
The Health Ministry also said that 504 more patients have fully recovered, bringing to 6,621 the total number of recoveries.
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 statement to KUNA.
Kuwait is enforcing a 24-hour nationwide curfew until May 30 to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
