Kuwait listed 244 new coronavirus infections on Thursday to raise the total 149,017 and two deaths in the past 24 hours as the death toll rose to 926, the health ministry said.
The number of people hospitalised with the virus currently stands at 3,193, with 49 of them in intensive care units, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, who revealed that some 3,565 swab tests were conducted over the last day out of a total of 1,235,842.
The ministry had earlier reported that some 304 more people had been cured from the virus over the past day, raising the total of those to have overcome the disease to 144,898. He went on to urge nationals and expatriates alike that abiding by health precautions, mainly, following social distancing rules, is the only way to halt the spread of the virus.