1,084 infected with coronavirus; 5 deaths

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KUWAIT CITY, May 18, Kuwait’s Ministry of Health has announced recording 1,084 new coronavirus infections and five related deaths in the past 24 hours. The new figures took the total cases in the country up to 293,574 and deaths to 1,701 respectively, noted the ministry’s spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad in statements to KUNA on Tuesday.
He pointed out that some 1,100 more people had been cured of the virus over the past day, raising the total of those who have overcome the disease to 279,924. He added that the number of people hospitalized with the virus currently stands at 11,949, with 182 of them in intensive care units. Al-Sanad revealed that some 9,635 swab tests were conducted over the last day, bringing the total to 2,477,308. He renewed calls for nationals and expatriates alike to abide by health precautions to curb the spread of the virus.

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