The Kuwait Ministry of Health held a press conference to announce that in the last 24 hours two new coronavirus infection cases were recorded in Kuwait, bringing the total number of infected in Kuwait to 58.
The fresh virus infections are two Kuwaiti women who had recently returned from Iran, said the Health Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Dr. Butheina Al-Mudhaf Thursday.
The virus-infected women who were admitted to intensive care earlier on Wednesday are receiving necessary medical care, she said, elaborating that one of them is still in a critical situation while the other is stable. However, all other quarantined cases are stable and fine, the Kuwaiti health official told the daily briefing.
Meanwhile, she noted that the ministry had held a meeting on Wednesday to weigh precautions taken in order to control the novel coronavirus in the country. The meeting also discussed a planned evacuation of Kuwaiti citizens from Iraq and concerted efforts involving various state agencies to fend off a looming virus outbreak.
Coronaviruses (CoV) form a large family of viruses that can cause mild colds to severe pneumonia in humans. Other coronaviruses can cause a variety of infectious diseases in animals. Coronaviruses are transmitted between animals and humans.
Coronaviruses include the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), which first appeared in humans in 2012, and the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), first detected in 2003. In 2020, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was identified in China that has never been detected in humans
before.
