Kuwait on Tuesday said 5,742 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking the country’s caseload to 508,372, according to health ministry data. Some 4,856 more people recovered from the virus to up the number of those to have overcome the disease to 459,655, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al- Sanad, adding that the recovery to positive case ratio stands at 90.4 percent.
One fatality linked to the virus upped the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 2,488, while 398 people are hospitalized with the virus, 68 of whom need intensive care, he told KUNA. Some 29,164 swab tests were conducted over the last day, out of a total of 6,718,482 sofar, added the spokesman.
