{"id":36174,"date":"2020-02-24T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.163.207.100\/~timesku1\/news\/?p=36174"},"modified":"2020-02-24T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:32:24","slug":"kuwait-confirms-3-coronavirus-cases-coming-from-irans-mashhad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/kuwait-confirms-3-coronavirus-cases-coming-from-irans-mashhad\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait confirms 3 coronavirus cases coming from Iran&#8217;s Mashhad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health (MoH) announced Monday that preliminary tests conducted for passengers who came from the Iranian city of Mashhad resulted in three confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>A MoH statement read that the first case was for a 53-year-old Kuwaiti citizen, and the second for a 61-year-old Saudi citizen, with both at a &#8220;normal&#8221; condition, showing no signs of the virus. 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