The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced recording 4,232 new coronavirus cases and two deaths on Sunday. The new figures raised the total number of cases to 578,819 and deaths to 2,510. In a statement to KUNA, the ministry’s official spokesperson Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said that 4,712 people recovered from the virus, raising the total number of recoveries to 522,882. He added that recovery rate compared to total cases is 90.3 percent.
Al-Sanad also noted that there are 87 patients in the ICUs and 567 others in COVID-19 wards. The number of swabs taken is 28,419, raising the total number to 7.110,604, he said, adding that infection rate compared to the number of swabs is 14.9 percent. Latest global update of the coronavirus casualties put the tally of the contamination cases at 393 million and the death toll at 5.73 million.The first outbreak o the pandemic was reported in the heart of China late 2019.
According to strong theories, the virus originated in traded wild animals, used for food by locals. The virus had soon spilled over in all directions of the hemisphere reaching the Middle East and the Gulf, where member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council had scrambled to stem its spread with a host of precautions. Kuwait is a member country of the GCC which also includes Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
