His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s health is “noticeably improving,” His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said Monday. His Highness the Prime Minister was assuring the ministers, while chairing a cabinet meeting, about the health condition of His Highness the Amir, Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and Minister […]
Health Care
Kuwait: 478 new COVID-19 cases; 4 deaths
Kuwait declared 478 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 67,911, with four people succumbing to the pandemic as the death toll reached 457, a health ministry official said on Sunday. Kuwaiti nationals, with 319 cases, occupy 86.9 percent with non-Kuwaitis, 144, occupying 31.1 percent of the […]
Kuwait suspends flights from 31 high risk countries over virus fears
Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has today suspended commercial flights from 31 countries as of August 1 due to the Covid-19 outbreak, as instructed by health authorities. The list involves India, Iran, China, Brazil, Columbia, Armenia, Bangladesh, Syria, Spain, Singapore, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Mexico, Indonesia, Chile, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Hong […]
Kuwait: 491 cases; 593 patients have recovered
The Ministry of Health confirmed 491 novel coronavirus (Covid-19) cases over the past 24 hours, taking the tally to 67,448. Six infected patients have also passed away due to the viral infection, bringing the country’s death toll to 453 so far, the ministry’s Spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a statement to KUNA. In addition, 8,470 […]
Kuwait: 626 cases; 863 recoveries
Kuwait tallied 626 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 66,529. The Ministry of Health said that one patient for the virus had succumbed to the infectious disease, taking the overall death toll to 445 since the pandemic broke out in the country. Of those infected, Kuwaiti […]
Kuwait MoH: 770 new COVID-19 cases, urges ongoing adherence to precautions
— Up to 770 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kuwait in past 24 hours raising tally of contaminations with the dreaded bug to 6,5149 since the pandemic broke out in the country months ago. Moreover, medical authorities counted four new deaths due to contamination with the germ, during the same period, […]