The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health declared on Thursday listing 866 new infection cases with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours, raising the tally of the contaminations to 617,275.

The ministry spokesperson Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad told KUNA that 1,805 new recovery cases were recorded, increasing the whole count of the cured to 601,386.

He also reported a single new death, with the death toll climbing to 2,534, adding that there were 72 cases at intensive care units, while the whole figure of the cases that continued to receive medical care amounted to 13,355.

Meanwhile, the number of the cases at the covid wards settled at 239.

Dr. Al-Sanad also reported that the number of the new PCRs reached 25,186 with the total number of these examinations settling at 7.553,030.

Source: Kuwait News Agency