Kuwait plans to enforce a full curfew on Sunday, and residents responded with panic, as there were traffic jams on streets, and long queues in front of petrol stations and major food supply outlets. Security authorities had to work to ease crowds and make sure shoppers were maintaining social distancing.
Crowding was a common sight throughout the country, increasing the resulting risks of contact with the coronavirus infection which the Ministry of Health is working hard to halt.
Not only were streets overcrowded, the cooperative societies and markets were filled with thousands of shoppers, as well as petrol stations and bakeries.
Photos by Amin Ismail
The Times Kuwait Photographer