Kuwait’s health ministry on Tuesday said one fatality and 558 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking the country’s infection caseload to 620,452. Some 1,206 more people recovered from the virus to up the number of those to have overcome the disease to 609,349 people, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, adding that the recovery to positive case ratio stands at 98 percent. One fatality linked to the virus upped the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 2,539 people, while 8,564 people are hospitalized with the virus, 52 of whom need intensive care, Al-Sanad noted. The number of swab tests conducted has reached 17,936, out of a total of 766,329,8 tests, added the spokesman.
