COVID-19 cases soar in Kuwait – 4,548 Infected

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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 12: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday recording 4,548 new infection cases with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the last 24 hours. With the new contamination cases, Kuwait’s caseload climbed to 446,547. Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, the MoH spokesperson, said in a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the medical authorities recorded 741 new recovery cases, increasing the overall count of the cured to 415,608, noting that the proportion of the healed as compared to the total number of the cases reached 93.1 percent.

Dr. Al-Sanad also revealed that the deaths remained at 2,473. As to the number of people still receiving medical treatment at intensive care units, he said that there are patients in these wards. The whole count of the cases with confirmed infection that continue to receive treatment has reached 28,466 and the number of people that are treated at the COVID-19 wards has stood at 200. Also in the same duration, the medical staff conducted 35,335 PCR tests with the whole number of these examinations soaring to 6,308,844, Dr. Al-Sanad said, also noting that the proportion of the infection cases to the tests reached 12.9 percent.

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