Ministry of Health (MoH) registered on Sunday 798 additional COVID-19 cases over a 24-hour span, increasing the total number of infections to 177,701, while five fatalities were recorded, raising the death toll to 1,003. Plus, active cases amounted to 10,679 with 133 of them in intensive care units, MoH’s Spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad told KUNA during the 104th regular press conference.

Health authorities conducted 7,514 swab tests to a total of 1,667,920, which meant that 10.6 percent of the swab tests performed in 24 hours were infections, he revealed. Dr. Al-Sanad urged everyone in Kuwait to adhere to precautionary measures against the virus and maintain social distancing. Earlier, the ministry confirmed 765 fresh recovery cases, added to a total of 166,019 cured people thus far.


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