KUWAIT CITY, Feb 3: The concerned authorities continued their inspection tours to implement health regulations in establishments, markets, shops and facilities, reports Al-Qabas daily. The women’s teams in the Health Requirements Committee recorded 1,000 violations in wedding halls and women’s facilities; such as workers not wearing masks, failure to display warning posters, not providing sterilizers and others.

The daily’s staff accompanied the inspection team headed by Director of the Technical Staff Department in the Advisory Committee for Supervising Commodities and Determining Prices Faisal Al-Ansari during the inspection of a commercial complex in the Capital recently. The team issued warnings to several establishments for failure to comply with the health regulations.

Kuwait on Thursday said 5,990 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking the country’s caseload to 564,735, health ministry data showed. Some 5,101 more people recovered from the virus to up the number of those to have overcome the disease to 507,174, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, adding that the recovery to positive case ratio stands at 89.8 percent. Two fatalities linked to the virus upped the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 2,503, while 503 people are hospitalized with the virus, 89 of whom need intensive care, he told KUNA.