Kuwait’s Ministry of Health Tuesday reports 1,718 new infections of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours, raising the total cases to 354,851. Some 1,767 people recovered from the disease in the same period, pushing the total recoveries up to 334,445, Ministry’s Spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said. The death toll from the virus climbed to 1,961 after registering 18 mortalities.