5,176 test positive for COVID-19; 4,337 recover

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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 24: Kuwait on Monday said 5,176 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking the country’s caseload to 502,630, according to health ministry data. Some 4,337 more people recovered from the virus to up the number of those to have overcome the disease to 454,799, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, adding that the recovery to positive case ratio stands at 90.5 percent. One fatality linked to the virus upped the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 2,487, while 397 people are hospitalized with the virus, 65 of whom need intensive care, he told KUNA. Some 28,910 swab tests were conducted over the last day, out of a total of 6,689,318 so far, added the spokesman.

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