Kuwait’s daily COVID cases rose by 306 over the past day to a cumulative total of 406,540, while three more fatalities linked to the virus upped its death toll from the outbreak to 2,389, the health ministry said on Sunday.
Some 606 more people were cured of the virus, raising the total of those to have overcome the disease to 397,247, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdallah Al-Sanad.
The number of people hospitalized with the virus currently stands at 446, of whom 205 are in intensive care units, in addition to 6,904 active cases, he said.
Some 10,757 swab tests were conducted over the last day out of a total almost 3.6 million so far, he added, saying that the positive case-to-swab ratio sits at 2.84 percent.
He went on to urge nationals and residents alike that abiding by health precautions, mainly, following social distancing rules, is the only way to halt the spread of the virus
Source: Kuwait News Agency